New Orleans A great piece from the Los Angeles Times ran on their wire today with a story and picture of D. Taylor, the accomplished, veteran leader and organizer of the great 60,000 member strong Culinary Workers Union Local 226 of Las Vegas, and the role the union is playing as “king maker” in …
Category: Ideas and Issues
$5.85–Thank God I’m Alive
New Orleans On July 1st the federal minimum wage finally rose to $5.85 per hour. After 10 long years, the lowest wage workers in the country got a 70 cent raise. This is the first of several steps up the ladder that will put workers up to $7.25 over the next two years (July 1, …
Stopping Foreclosures
New Orleans Maybe public authorities are finally listening to the foreclosure victims and realizing that the madness must stop. There is at least an encouraging sign from Massachusetts that Governor Patrick Duval and Attorney General Martha Coakley may be stepping up and setting a precedent. They finally forced Fremont, one of the worst of the …