New Orleans We hear a lot of big talk these about creating jobs, especially manufacturing jobs, and their disappearance, including going south to Mexico. The President-elect has been going wild with his Tweeter-finger about a Steelworkers’ local union president having the gall to correct his claims on how many jobs he and his team saved …
Category: Organizing
They’re Coming After Unions at Every Level
New Orleans There is little question that the conservatives are coming after unions, even while they make the outrageous claim that they are now the workers’ party in the wake of the recent election. Since the Wisconsin counterrevolution when the right was successful in eliminating union shop for public employees, the drums have been beating …
Bottom Feeders, Home Dreamers, and Big Time Realty Schemers
Chicago When neighborhoods are wracked by foreclosures and the abandonment that accompanied the 2008 Great Recession and financial chicanery that popped the real estate bubble, significant studies have documented the loss in value experienced not only by houses on the block, but also houses within a mile away that also lose value. Put enough abandonment …