New Orleans We are on the countdown now. Having toiled in the vineyards almost two years in the wake of the surprising statewide minimum wage increase victory in Florida in 2004, we are now almost to “raise day” for low wage workers on November 7th in Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri. Our avowed enemies even …
Month: October 2006
A New Business Model for Wal-Mart?
New Orleans Wall Street analysts need to put our WARN (www.warnwalmart.org) on speed dial. Reading the Wall Street Journal over the last week, as they speculated on whether or not big investors could convince the company to concentrate on “same store” sales and other stock enhancements, we could have told them in advance that Wal-Mart …
Labor’s Cutting Edge?
Little Rock For the 19th time leaders and staff of SEIU Local 100 (www.seiu100.org) headquartered in New Orleans but with organizers also in Arkansas and Texas and SEIU Local 880 based in Chicago but now with members in every nook and cranny of Illinois and expanding operations in Indiana and soon Kansas, came together in …