Santa Fe: Living wage campaigns have been at the forefront of all of our strategies for progressive economic development for the last decade almost. Of the 100 or so ordinances that have been won at the city or county level, the vast majority have been essentially “prevailing wage” measures. The building trades virtually created the notion …
Category: ACORN
Home Child Care Workers Partnership
Los Angeles: Sometimes small steps can take us great distances, and a meeting one night this week in California was an example of just that. Almost twenty organizers from ACORN and from the Service Employees International Union who had been working separately from San Diego to Sacramento met together to start the hard work of figuring …
Looking Under the Hood
Kansas City: There is no small amount of excitement in writing about a significant victory in a serious and long-term fight as I did in reporting on the tentative agreement with H&R Block. The campaigns are so intense and riveting that once done, the report feels mundane. Partly because it is hard to adequately convey all …