Little Rock Sara Jayaraman, the co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and director of the Food Labor Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley recently wrote an impassioned op-ed largely trying to put pressure on Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, to extend the increase in wages from fast food to all …
Month: November 2015
The Myth of Welfare and Work
Little Rock A central part of conservative ideology repeated moronically by many liberals and, sadly, even some progressives perpetuates myths about welfare recipients and work, while victimizing them as lazy, shiftless, baby making leeches on society and good, upstanding hardworking taxpayers. None of this has ever been true, and the fight to embrace rights and …
Brits and Texans Agree – Attack Unions Where it Hurts – Dues Collection
New Orleans Conservatives of all stripes and nationalities seem to have settled on a killer app for delivering a death blow to unions: block the dues collection mechanism! Short memories will recall that earlier this year there were fierce legislative battles in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere whose sole objective was to eliminate the ability …