Updates
Denver Classroom Teachers Association Fights Toxic Swaps
In Denver last month, the Denver Classroom Teachers Association held a training with 200 members to educate teachers about the role that toxic swaps had played in draining hundreds of millions out of the district budget. Denver Public Schools was trapped in some of...
Exposing Wall Street’s Predatory Behavior in Wisconsin
The Refund America Project is working to expose Wall Street's predatory behavior in Wisconsin, where public officials are pushing for austerity cuts on vital infrastructure such as public education. In its compelling report, RAP lays out a clear choice for Wisconsin's...
Fix LA Fighting For What Los Angeles Deserves
In Los Angeles, city workers and community allies from the Fix LA Coalition have been mobilizing to call on the Mayor to reverse cuts to vital city services that have left piles of garbage, unfilled potholes, and sewage overflows in the streets and compromised the...
Refund America Project’s Financial Plan for Chicago
In Chicago, a coalition of labor and community groups is countering the narrative that the City is broke and needs to cut public services and government pensions. They are rallying support for a financial plan for Chicago that puts communities first by seeking revenue...
#GoHedgeClippers
In New York, a bold new movement is taking on hedge fund billionaires who hijack the democratic process to expand their own wealth and power. The Hedge Clippers are crashing Hedge Fund executives' fancy dinners, private clubs, and luxury apartments, as well as...
Breaking the Cycle of Financial Abuse: Communities and the Chicago Tribune Take a Stand Against Wall Street
by Alex Taliadoros The Chicago Tribune followed-up its investigation of the Chicago Public Schools’ toxic finance deals with three new articles that point to how we can start to reverse the trend of financial abuse that our communities have suffered from Wall Street....
In the News: Chicago Tribune’s Series on “Borrowing Trouble”
by Alex Taliadoros In an incredible feat of investigative journalism, the Chicago Tribune has published a three-part series exposing how Chicago Public Schools (“CPS”) gambled and lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars though complex financial deals with Wall...
BFCG at the 2014 Labor Research and Action Network Conference
On June 16 and 17, 2014, the Labor Research and Action Network held their 4th annual conference at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. We were proud to participate and present a session entitled "Bargaining for the Common Good: The Role of Research...
In the News: Are Labor Unions on the Rise?
In asking the question, "Are labor unions on the rise?," Pooja Bhatia of OZY cited Bargaining for the Common Good as one of the keys to the future success of the labor movement. She wrote: After decades of losing members, legislative defeats and a declining...