Silver Springs It’s the time of year when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) begins to send out the call for the international dialogue to community and labor organizers who are interested in learning about the work of their counterparts in other countries and sharing their own experiences. This year the board has approved the international dialogue …
US and Canada Minimal Wages
Silver Springs We are at the time of the year when finally some minimum wage workers get a raise. Praise be! This is the last scheduled increase since the 2007 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. For those of you who can’t remember, here’s a reminder from the DOL website: The 2007 amendments increased …
Foreclosure Mods Farce
New Orleans The scorecard is finally being written on the ballyhooed, though mostly baloney, loan modifications being done by big home mortgage loan servicers and trumpeted by the federal government (and largest shareholder in many of these outfits) as a real plan for foreclosure relief, and it stinks. Gretchen Morgenson in a searing Times column …