Sydney We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds. First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston. …
Category: Labor Organizing
Greeen Bans
Sydney Amanda Tattersall, a well-known and regarded union and community organizer and researcher now a deputy assistant secretary of Unions New South Wales, opened up the official meetings of the Organizers’ Forum with a broad overview presentation of how market, government, and civil society forces had interacted over the last 200 years of Australian …
Building Bad Loans
New Orleans A friend sent me an interesting report done by the Laborers’ International Union called “The Ticking Time Bomb: Adjustable Rate Mortgages and Depreciating Home Values in New Subdivisions.” Our old comrade and colleague, Jordan Ash, seemed to be the principal author of the report, and we were curious how he had been …