New Orleans In this week’s continuing experiment with new forms and focus “under the headlines” for the daily blog, here’s more: Jackie Calmas in the New York Times on a meeting expected between Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos and Obama: “they are expected to force a discussion Mr. Obama is not eager for in an …
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Wal-Mart Reneges on Healthcare and Teaches Old Lessons Again
Kingston The last several days it feels like I have been reliving the organizing we did through the Wal-Mart Workers Association and WARN (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now) from 2004 through 2008, largely in central Florida and California. That experience was the heart of the discussion with our brothers on the national Steelworkers staff and …
A Rough Road for Wal-Mart Women, but a Road
Houston Wal-Mart took a shot at the Supreme Court on a last ditch appeal not on whether or not they discriminated against more than a million women, since everyone knew that was the case, but whether or not the class was too big. Now we are obviously caught between “too big to fail” and “too …