New Orleans There can’t be much joy these days in Bentonville, Arkansas, home of Walmart and its buddies. The litany of woes just keeps piling up. Five consecutive quarters of reduced financial returns has to lead the list. In the land of the 1% you can just about get away with murder if you’re making …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Sodexo Stumbles While Squeezing Through Obamacare Loophole
New Orleans Obamacare continues to be contentious with daily reports arguing about the issue from Nobel Prize economist and columnist Paul Krugman’s assessment of the good news to more conservative pundits arguing we are on the verge of huge price shocks coming in the 2015 rating levels. One thing that continues to be indisputable is …
The Open Door to Accelerating “Majority” Unionization in Canada
Edinburgh When we’re not practicing “raps,” and strategizing about the best way forward in the Leith neighborhood of Edinburgh for ACORN Scotland, I’ve been thinking about the interesting features of the labor law in the United Kingdom that allow workers to build unions and win consultation rights with employers prior to achieving majorities that would …