New Orleans The fact that ACORN International has been fighting hammer and tong in Canada and other countries and with Local 100 United Labor Unions in the USA with Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox to expand internet access to lower income families might have been what led me to notice an article about “bandwidth for the …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Union Density Pays: Finally Overtime for Home Health Care Workers…Soon!
New Orleans Our first steps in the direction of organizing lower wage workers into worker associations which might lead to what unions started 35 years ago when household workers who were also called domestics or maids were finally able to be paid the federal minimum wage. I moved from Little Rock to New Orleans and …
Punishing the Clinic Door Strategy in Texas and Florida at the Polls
Baton Rouge There is a desperate and cynical political strategy at work in the efforts of Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Governor Rick Perry in their attempts to bar people from the clinic doors trying to enroll under the new Affordable Care Act on October 1st. This Rick-o-say strategy will in fact ricochet on …