Atlanta I got lucky and five students, now calling themselves the ACORN International Team at Georgia State University, picked as their major project at the GSU School of Social Work helping us develop information and support for our Remittance Justice Campaign. We assembled at a Nepalese restaurant in an Atlanta neighborhood that is at the …
Tag: Social Policy
Welcome to My World on Thanksgiving!
New Orleans On the eve of the USA Thanksgiving there is a long list of chores and cleanups, some long postponed, that have to be sorted out as family and friends assemble. Normally, these times signals a momentary lull, a chance for a breath, but believe it, working in the world is not like that at …
The Rarity of Labor Union Strikes in Today’s Economy and Labor Market and Lost Hope at NLRB
New Orleans In Social Policy magazine we’ve published in the current issue a solid description of the ups and downs of a group of nursing home workers in Connecticut. The piece focused on the lessons learned in the course of a strike that the workers and the union felt was successful. We also published in …