New Orleans In Social Policy magazine we’ve published in the current issue a solid description of the ups and downs of a group of nursing home workers in Connecticut. The piece focused on the lessons learned in the course of a strike that the workers and the union felt was successful. We also published in [...]
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May 7th, 2012 | Tags: Connecticut, labor relations, nlrb, nursing home workers, Social Policy, unions, Wall Street Journal, WalMart, Workers rights | Category: Labor Organizing | Leave a comment
Recall effort in Wisconsin Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held in Milwaukee and it gave me an excuse for several days to see what was really happening here at ground zero in [...] April 19th, 2012 | Tags: Milwaukee, recall, Scott Walker, SEIU Healthcare, Social Policy, Wisconsin | Category: ACORN, Community Organizing, Labor Organizing | Leave a comment
Golden Calf Created by Catholics United in Support of Occupy DC and Regulations on Wall-Street New Orleans Someone deserves credit, and I’m betting that someone is James Salt, the energetic director of Catholics United, for exposing the increasingly desperate, rightwing inspired, guilt-by-association style attacks on social change groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human [...] April 9th, 2012 | Tags: American Life League, Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), catholic church, catholics united, Chinese Progressive Association of San Francisco, Companeros, defunding, James Salt, Reform CCHD, Social Policy, Washington Community Action Network, Young Workers United | Category: Ideas and Issues | Leave a comment
New Market I couldn’t remember my last visit to the Highlander Center, but it had to have been in the last century. Little had really changed. The same bunk beds, rocking chairs, and great views of the Cumberland Mountains were still there. Finally thanks to towers popping up like weeds on the [...] October 19th, 2011 | Tags: BRIDGES, Highlander Center, memphis, Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, Social Policy | Category: Organizing | Leave a comment
New Orleans This is embarrassing, but not surprising. A last ditch lawsuit filed by a bunch of bottom fishing, low wage employers in the Louisiana seafood, forestry, sugar, and hotel and amusement park industries, won a 60-day delay from the US Department of Labor preventing fair and living wages from being paid to the [...] September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Deptartment of Labor, Jacob Horwitz, Living Wage, remittance charges, Social Policy, temporary workers | Category: Labor Organizing | Leave a comment
New Orleans Yes, I know many of you believe that slavery ended almost 150 years ago in an American-centric view of the world, but it’s a big world, and shockingly simple to exploit people by having them work for free, which is what slavery is all about. The US State Department estimates there are [...] September 22nd, 2011 | Tags: delhi, Organizers Forum, slavery, Slavery Footprint, Social Policy | Category: International | Leave a comment
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