Edinburgh Riding on the train from Stafford to Edinburgh, I started reading a pamphlet produced by Locality, the big UK nonprofit. The title, “Saving Money by Doing the Right Thing,” had caught my eye sitting on a literature table at the training conference. The upshot was a contrarian, but in our experience accurate and corrective …
Category: Financial Justice
Leaders and Stewards Demand Expanded Vision for Unions with a Long List of Details
Dallas One of the most amazing things about being an organizer, whether of community or labor-based organizations, remains the excitement of learning deeply what people really want – and expect – of their own organizations. For 33 years, Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has held an annual leadership conference. Many times it is largely …
Public Employers are Dangerously Confused about Protecting Workers’ Pensions
Shreveport Pensions at their core are deferred wages set aside for the future use of workers when they are unable to collect their salaries. If there were no pensions, presumably wages would be higher, depending on tax policies of course. Employers and politicians would never think they had the right to raid their workers’ money …