Little Rock For the 19th time leaders and staff of SEIU Local 100 (www.seiu100.org) headquartered in New Orleans but with organizers also in Arkansas and Texas and SEIU Local 880 based in Chicago but now with members in every nook and cranny of Illinois and expanding operations in Indiana and soon Kansas, came together in …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Derailing Planning in New Orleans
New Orleans Talking about “planning” in New Orleans after the storm has become an oxymoron. We are now 13 1/2 months after the storm and there is still nothing that anyone would concede is a plan for rebuilding the city that has everyone’s agreement. Mayor Nagin’s Cannizaro committee in the beginning turned the job of …
Wal-Mart Workers Hit the Street
Tampa Meeting the staff of the Wal-Mart Organizing Project in Tampa, we shifted through the reports and press calls from reporters expressing surprise that more than 100 Wal-Mart workers in Hialeah Gardens outside Miami had hit the streets to protest hour’s cutbacks. Rick Smith, the organizing director, handled a call from the Bureau of National …