Nonprofit Hospitals Are Going to Have to Prove They are Not Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

Little Rock     For many top executives and CEO’s it easy to imagine that running a big urban nonprofit hospital has been a sweet gig.  Looking at some of the 990’s that all nonprofits submit to the IRS annually, salaries in the millions are not unusual at some of these big hospitals and many make millions …

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Duplicate Dues Enrollment Should be Standard Operating Procedure

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Little Rock   Reading about the second battle of Wisconsin between labor and Governor Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues, who four years ago stripped public workers’ unions in that state of the ability to collect agency fees or “fair share” payments in lieu of dues for representation, it seems they are making short work of …

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Coordinated Attack on Public Workers and Unions in Texas and Oklahoma

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

Houston           The headlines on the attack on workers and their unions has recently been written in the Midwest.  An attempt to follow-up in Wisconsin on the stripping of union protections for public workers now finds the legislature there pile driving a so-called right-to-work bill that would strip unions of vital resources for representation requirements and …

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