New Orleans Newspapers over the weekend from London to Washington and New York are full of stories about the increasing wages of the top dogs in the financial industries on Wall Street and the City of London. The estimates range from 10% to 25% hikes. Meanwhile we continue to struggle to figure out the most …
Category: Community Organizing
Continuing Development Wars
Austin Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession. Unemployment has hardly hit 6%. The airport is new and busy. Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important. I caught up with the fight to …
Finding New Ways to Organize
Toronto Some of the most interesting meetings in my several days in Toronto were with our friends in the Canadian labor movement in Ontario, especially at the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), SEIU Canada, and the Steelworkers. There’s a hunger to organize in most of these unions even though several of them are getting hammered by …