Twinkies, Pensions, Real Wages and Poverty Economic Populist ...This is our new normal, corporations can steal worker's retirement by liquidating, jobs are offshore outsourced, people are fired and wages are repressed...
Table of Short Sales and Foreclosures for Selected Cities in October Calculated Risk ...First, inventory has declined sharply, and there is very little inventory in many areas. Second, it appears that the share of conventional sales in certain markets has increased significantly (these are normal sales - not foreclosures or short sales). Both the decline in inventory, and the increase in conventional sales, are signs of moving towards a more normal housing market...
Bringing web transactions home for their just deserts Brisbane Times ...Governments worldwide are pressing global technology companies to justify ownership structures that rely on tax havens...
Groups File First Amended COOL Complaint: New Plaintiffs Added and New Cause of Action Alleged Trade Reform ...On Tuesday R-CALF USA joined with the Made in the USA Foundation to file their first amended complaint in their legal challenge against the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) ruling that found the United States’ country of origin labeling (COOL) law to be a violation of international trade rules...
Wal-Mart Shoppers Seen Overrunning Black Friday Union Protests Bloomberg ...Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) workers demanding better pay and benefits vow to mount 1,000 protests ... The strategy risks showing the company’s strength not vulnerability. To work, the approach will require protest leaders to turn out significant numbers of strikers and persuade deal-chasing shoppers to go elsewhere...
The Worst Kept Secret Ever: Walker/ALEC 2016 Cognitive Dissidence ...The really bad news is that Romney's defeat means that Scott Walker is going to double down on his bid for the presidency. We'll have to be girded for the fight against oddly termed "right to work" legislation, further raping of our environment (including the mining in the Northwoods and fracking everywhere else) and further attempts at voter suppression, anti-women and anti-LGBT legislation...
Sanitation workers seek to join Teamsters Fire Engineering ...More than four years without a raise has prompted some of the most public faces of DeKalb County's workers to petition for a union...
