New Orleans Just maybe the publicity campaigns of the $15 per hour efforts by fast food and other workers are about to get serious. Steven Greenhouse in the Times reported that SEIU is claiming that “thousands” of the several hundred thousand home health care workers represented by the union are preparing to join upcoming actions and …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Great Union Organizing Songs for Labor Day
New Orleans There used to be a bumper sticker saying “Unions: The People Who Brought You Vacation.” Unions definitely brought us all Labor Day. There were years of giant parades, now largely in the United States something for San Francisco, Chicago, and maybe New York City, while the rest of the world celebrates May Day …
Taking the Poor Door to Extremes in London
Warren, Arkansas Recently we discussed the potential evolution of the so-called “poor door” housing programs implemented by developers trying to segregate one-percenters from affordable housing units in their complexes in New York City. I warned that Mumbai offered a potential case study in how such lack of integration could lead to rebuilding substandard housing next …