New Orleans A great piece from the Los Angeles Times ran on their wire today with a story and picture of D. Taylor, the accomplished, veteran leader and organizer of the great 60,000 member strong Culinary Workers Union Local 226 of Las Vegas, and the role the union is playing as “king maker” in …
Category: ACORN
ACORN Glen
Houston I wanted to see the first six houses completed in the ACORN Glen development in the North Forest section of Houston, so Orell Fitzsimmons, the field director of SEIU Local 100, whisked me out for a look. We were wildly impressed! These were some serious houses built at two stories on a nice-sized lot …
ICI-NOLA
New Orleans Councilman James Carter in my own home district was having a public hearing on a big development proposed in the next block from where I live. Someone had bought the old Frey’s hotdog plant and had in mind to build more than 100 units of wildly expensive condos on the space ranging in …