New Orleans Talking to my friend and comrade, the learned and brilliant professor from the embattled University of Wisconsin, Joel Rogers, I asked him if he was taking any incoming from the Governor Walker Wars being waged against anything not goose stepping to the Republican far right wing and its master donors. I knew the …
Month: August 2015
Politicians Silence Advocates and Organizations
New Orleans There is no doubt by anybody anywhere that the Fight for $15 and in general the fight for living wages has been led by unions and community organizations in every country where the campaign has been fought: the United States, the United Kingdom, and, certainly Canada. No matter the tactics and strategy the …
Confusing Minimum Wages with Living Wages
New Orleans The back and forth between raising minimum wages and winning living wages or at least more livable wages gets confusing at the confluence of policy and politics, tactics and strategy, and that’s not helping us either nationally or locally. First a story. In 1978, in New Orleans, we began an organizing drive to …