Despite a recent Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts residents still face having equity in their homes taken under a confiscatory state statute known as absolute title, according to advocates and lawyers working to have that dubious practice stopped immediately.
In recent years, a growing number of activists and pundits who are normally allied with Big Labor have been publicly demanding that public policymakers take bold action to stop America’s powerful building-trades union bosses from wielding their special legal privileges to keep good construction job opportunities out of reach for African Americans.