New Orleans Years ago, we picked up the issue of sick leave protection for workers in states and municipalities as a national evolution of the living wage campaigns. The recession and other forces slowed progress, but still victories were claimed in the state of Connecticut, largely due to work led by the Working Families Party …
Category: Financial Justice
Worker Centers Next Up on Attack List: New Song, Same Verses
Little Rock When they come after you, the playbook is clear, and all the plays are coordinated. The fake studies, the overheated websites, the bullet points masking as “facts,” the PR, academic, and Congressional shills who are all trying to legitimize the bare knuckled, business-funded, rightwing assaults against progressive organizations. This is all Rick Berman …
Unions Pushing Up Wages from Below
Little Rock I’m not sure whether it’s a backstory, a footnote, or just good organizers grabbing a handle and moving fast and hard with it, but under, over, and around the new push to $10.10, rather than $15.00 per hour, is some good, solid, and exciting union organizing of contract workers in federal facilities around …