Houston If labor doesn’t have enough problems, all we need is another breakout of internecine warfare. One of the most difficult and divisive disputes in recent decades, since maybe the P9 meatpacking struggle in Minnesota, occurred a half-dozen years ago in Northern California between former SEIU Local 250 renamed SEIU United Healthcare Workers’ West (SEIU-UHW) …
The Defense to Repayment for Student Loans and Debt Jubilee
New Orleans The announcement by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that student loans will be forgiven from tens of thousands of students who attended Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that went belly up last month teaching many invaluable but expensive lessons in finance and apparently fraud. The action is important on many levels, but it is vital to acknowledge …
Mobile Phones May Let Us Win Remittance Justice Yet
New Orleans ACORN International and its affiliates in numerous countries have been hammering away at the cost of remittances for several years now and often all we have to show for the effort has been some dents in the wall and bruises on our foreheads. We’ve succeeded in getting legislation introduced in different provinces and …