Montreal If Fox News and the Murdoch empire were not enough of a pill to swallow on a daily basis in the US, we now have to also watch the political machinations in Canada as they try to put the pieces together to bring their wild, whacky, and right wing slant to the north. In …
Month: September 2010
Union Leaders Thinking “Outside the Box”
Shreveport Local 100’s stewards and leaders organized themselves into three different workshops. One focused on schools and head start units, another looked at health care with nursing and community homes, and the last bit hard into contractors and subcontractors for sanitation and janitorial workers. The results were inspiring and exciting. In the report backs one …
Indicting Sheriff Arpaio
Shreveport Meeting Friday night with immigration reform organizers after their long day of meetings in New Orleans on the 2nd day of the “Turning the Tide” conference it was clear that spirits were good among the organizers, despite the fact that prospects for comprehensive reform seem to have sunk to new lows. These were hard …