Mumbai Around the table were our key leaders from the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), the huge traders organization that had been with us since the beginning of the India FDI Watch Campaign, the leader of the Congress of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in Mumbai, the head of the hawkers and the mathadi …
Category: WalMart
Wal-Mart Republicanism
New Orleans Here’s an interesting quote and concept courtesy of Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, speaking in Tennessee yesterday on his dark horse race for the Republican nomination for President. According to AP writer, David Espo, he said, “…Wal-Mart Republicans knew long before Wall Street that the economy was headed for trouble. ‘They …
Living Wage Victory in Sarasota
Dallas A showpiece part of the WARN strategy in directly engaging every opportunity to hold Wal-Mart accountable to the community was our breakthrough ability to find that there was language in the law in Florida that allowed some exceptions when it came to setting living wages on a city by city, county by county …