New Orleans On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign too often “civilians,” regular citizens, don’t have a clue about the predatory costs of moving money backwards and forward between where families and workers are now and their home country. All of this made it exciting to get emails in recent days from ACORN Canada organizers, Jill …
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ACORN Ghost Hunters Smoking Dope on Corporate Trail
New Orleans In the typical rightwing kneejerk, the other day all of the bloggers circulated a so-called report with blaring headlines produced in some inexplicable, sloppy way by something called Cause for Action, calling themselves “advocates for government accountability.” The list was enjoyably ludicrous, but at the same time dangerously chilling. The report called itself …
Non-Standard Workers are the New Informal Workforce in Japan
New Orleans Casual, temporary, irregular (Korea), part-time, and informal are all terms of art in different countries describing everywhere essentially the same global workforce phenomena in the race to the bottom for public and corporate employers sweating labor from workers on a come-as-you-are, no benefits, we-will-call-you-whenever-we-need-you basis. We learned from hours of intensive dialogue with …