New Orleans As difficult as it is win higher wages in cities around the country, where it has happened businesses are trying to pump up a controversy over union attempts to pass “carve-outs” that would exempt union contracts from compliance with the living wage agreements. There is nothing new in unions trying this tactic in …
Category: ACORN
Banksy’s Dismaland
New Orleans At the end of a long catch-up Skype call with Stuart Melvin, ACORN United Kingdom’s national organizer, he mentioned he and some of the members were going to be spending some time at an odd street festival of sorts not far from our folks in Bristol, England along the coast in a town …
Defending Planned Parenthood Against Conspiracy
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Allentown1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A hastily drawn bill by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky to defund Planned Parenthood of a half-billion in government contracts was defeated by a vote of 53-46. Republicans in the House of Representatives say that they might be willing to shut down …