New Orleans The collective corporate failure to act decisively and preemptively to guarantee safe working conditions in textile supply factories is making a mockery of any and all claims of corporate social responsibility in these industries. Following the death of hundreds by fire in Bangladesh recently, a factory collapsed in recent days marking one of …
Category: International
Slow Growth, High Debt, Forced Austerity Study Fatally Flawed
New Orleans I’m a fan of Robert Pollin, who we know best as the University of Massachusetts economist who authored the ground breaking studies on the negligible to non-existent job loss coming from marginal increases in living wages for workers. Pollin’s work was a critical, dispassionate argument against the “sky is falling” conservatives who argue that …
Visas for Temporary Workers are a Huge Issue…in Canada
Calgary Walking this morning, light snow was still sticking to the embankments along the curbside and puddles had a thin sheet ice, as spring was coming late to the northern Rockies. Calgary continues to be an oil rich boomtown with population now surpassing a million people with low unemployment throughout the province of Alberta, the …