New Orleans Senator John Edwards began his “Road to One America” tour with the first stop in New Orleans in the lower 9th Ward. Not surprisingly, his campaign reached out to ACORN, having played a lead role in the fight to save the lower 9th, so that ACORN could point the way. A picture on …
Month: July 2007
The Bobbettes
New Orleans A great piece from the Los Angeles Times ran on their wire today with a story and picture of D. Taylor, the accomplished, veteran leader and organizer of the great 60,000 member strong Culinary Workers Union Local 226 of Las Vegas, and the role the union is playing as “king maker” in …
$5.85–Thank God I’m Alive
New Orleans On July 1st the federal minimum wage finally rose to $5.85 per hour. After 10 long years, the lowest wage workers in the country got a 70 cent raise. This is the first of several steps up the ladder that will put workers up to $7.25 over the next two years (July 1, …