Kiln Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times is pretty much the dean of what is left of the labor press in the United States. He expresses surprise at the news that the UAW is establishing a local union in the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant where they narrowly lost an election earlier in the year. It’s …
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Walmart Business Model Crashing and the False Claims of Foreign Direct Investment
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wadesworldjuly4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKiln Walmart may be the largest company in the United States in terms of gross sales, but mounting evidence indicates that its business model is collapsing. The company seems in a near state of panic as return on investment dips and quarterly returns drag consecutively lower. In …
Harris v. Quinn Part 3: The Problem of Creating Employers for Informal Workers
New Orleans Looking at the history of home-based work both in healthcare and daycare and its roots in domestic work going back to USA colonial times and branching directly out from plantation life at the end of slavery, it really goes without saying that the Court’s decision and creation of a new classification of “partial …