New Orleans Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)! This is not to say that we do not need labor law reform desperately, but having crossed paths with Craig for more [...]
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New Orleans Ken Lewis, the CEO and Chairman of Bank America has somehow joined Vikram Pandit of Citi as about the only old bulls of banking still left sitting after the implosion within the financial services industry. It is almost unbelievable that they are still there. [...] New Orleans News of a settlement by the United Auto Workers (UAW) averting bankruptcy at Chrysler and announcements by General Motors of their strategy for survival create a historic reinvention of capitalism in modern America. If these plans are implemented, then the UAW will own some 39% of GM and 55% of Chrysler. The [...] New Orleans Newspapers over the weekend from London to Washington and New York are full of stories about the increasing wages of the top dogs in the financial industries on Wall Street and the City of London. The estimates range from 10% to 25% hikes. Meanwhile we continue to struggle to figure out the most [...] Austin Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession. Unemployment has hardly hit 6%. The airport is new and busy. Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important. I caught up with the fight to [...] New Orleans When is the Hurricane Katrina damage finally over? Not yet for custodians of the Orleans Parish Public School System it turns out. Most of them were contracted out and lost their jobs or retired after the storm. Our union, Local 100 SEIU, now represents custodians at some of the schools through a [...] Toronto Some of the most interesting meetings in my several days in Toronto were with our friends in the Canadian labor movement in Ontario, especially at the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), SEIU Canada, and the Steelworkers. There’s a hunger to organize in most of these unions even though several of them are getting hammered by [...] Toronto After an early morning meeting with our friends at SEIU Canada discussing where organizing and our partnership should go, Judy Duncan and I were off to Guelph about an hour and a half from Toronto. I had met three young and dynamic women from the University of Guelph when they happened to volunteer in [...] |
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