Rock Creek The weekly entertainment and alternative paper in western Montana is the Missoula Independent. The cover story entitled, “Occupy Missoula: Where are They Now?” caught my eye. Coming on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement seems now more firefly than firestorm. The reporter interviewed a half-dozen people who had been …
Category: Financial Justice
Payroll Cards and Fees are Workers’ Rip-off and in Some Cases Illegal
New Orleans Some employers, including McDonalds, Walgreens, and others are forcing workers to be paid through bankcards. They “load” the cards with the amount owed the workers, and according to recent reports are even making money via kickbacks or rebates from the card issuer, oftenbig banks like Citi and others. These same banks make out …
Girl Scouts, Many Non-Profits, and Maybe Unions are Franchises
New Orleans Here’s one the lawyers did not catch for some of the fast and furious in the non-profit world who believe there is an escape hatch in a federation model or licensing that lets them have all of the power over their affiliates with none of the liabilities or responsibilities for them: no matter …