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 …

San Francisco        Talking to union organizers up and down California in this state that still stands for a major part of what exists for union density in the United States, I often asked if real plans were beginning to be made in case Obama won and in case labor reform passed in the form …

San Francisco        Now that Larry Cohen, CWA’s President, is talking at length along with others to Steven Greenhouse, the labor reporter for the New York Times, I feel like I can safely write about the reunification theory I have promoted privately for more than six months.     First, there has to be reunification.  There …