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Bet on SEIU in West Coast Family Feud

New Orleans In about a month the biggest union election in 2010 will be counted once all of the mail ballots are in from over 40,000 Kaiser Permanente workers who are being polled.  Unfortunately this not another milestone of successful union organizing, but hopefully the final major battle in the intense and long standing, [...]

A Hustle versus a Job

Denver For several years Local 100 represented buggy drivers in the French Quarter of New Orleans.  Any tourist in the city has seen the mule driven buggies lined up in front of Jackson Square to give tours which are a mixture of fact, fiction, and raw personality from the drivers themselves.  In meeting after meeting [...]

Fence Riding in Texas and Louisiana

Canyon Flying, I’m herded from winged silver cylinder from city A to city B, and once there jump into the messy lives and chaos of people and our times.   For a decade or so every winter Orell Fitzsimmons and I used to take a week, plus or minus, and go fence riding, as I [...]

Home Care Labor Crisis in USA & Korea

New Orleans Meeting with three visitors and friends from Korea, Yungik Jeong, Young Mi Choi, and Hwang Inhul, who work with PSAU, an organization of the unemployed and irregular workers, as informal and unprotected workers are now known there, the conversation quickly came to plight of home health care workers or domestic workers as they [...]

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