Kiln, Mississippi President Obama said recently that “…families can’t wait for the Republicans to do stuff. So sue me.” He’s been talking about the “bear getting loose,” allowing us to believe that he’s about to finally break the bounds of his own moderation and finally kick some butt. All of this might be setting the table …
Month: July 2014
Harris v. Quinn Part 3: The Problem of Creating Employers for Informal Workers
New Orleans Looking at the history of home-based work both in healthcare and daycare and its roots in domestic work going back to USA colonial times and branching directly out from plantation life at the end of slavery, it really goes without saying that the Court’s decision and creation of a new classification of “partial …
Harris v. Quinn Part 2: Creating a Permanent Precariat in Public Employment
New Orleans As terrible as the impact of the Supreme Court’s Harris v. Quinn decision is for unions and their capacity, the equally profound and perhaps more permanent implication may be in its attempt to create different sets of rights and entitlements for a permanent precariat in public sector employment. The 5-4 majority decision written …