New Orleans After a lengthy rule-making procedure, legal challenges, and a host of complaints from the right and the business community, perhaps one and the same thing, but that’s a topic for another day, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued new rules that they claimed would speed up certification elections to determine whether a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Living Wages and What Do You Get?
New Orleans Here’s the good news: add New Orleans to the list of cities that have passed a better wage for any company that subcontracts with the city or receives more than $50000. Beginning in January 2016 wherever the city’s public money goes in significant amounts, workers will find their wages set at $10.55. The …
Is TV Dying at the Hands of Women, Reality and Choice?
New Orleans With the viewing numbers and revenues plummeting at ESPN, investors in the stock market administered a financial butt whipping to media stocks from Disney to Fox, and pundits began asking whether or not “TV is dead,” rephrasing the same question others had posed when church attendance began falling. What’s up with all of …