Miami Gradually the community-labor campaign for paid sick leave in various states and cities is quietly making progress even in the throes of the Great Recession. Connecticut has passed such a policy statewide. San Francisco has had a policy in effect since 2007 giving 1 hour of sick leave (usable for a variety of purposes) for …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative: This Land is Our Land!
Youngstown Sitting down with most of the organizing staff of MVOC, the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, the first surprise was when they went around the room and all seem to have been raised and returned to this chunk of northeastern Ohio within about 60 miles of each other. For an organizing staff the odds of …
Daily Litany of Citizen and Consumer Smackdowns
New Orleans Like a modern version of the 12 days before Christmas, I think we could all start listing a daily beating we are taking from business, government, or both. Yesterday news came out that a fair chunk of the $26 billion settlement with banks over their home mortgage scandals and abuses with the state …