New Orleans Casual, temporary, irregular (Korea), part-time, and informal are all terms of art in different countries describing everywhere essentially the same global workforce phenomena in the race to the bottom for public and corporate employers sweating labor from workers on a come-as-you-are, no benefits, we-will-call-you-whenever-we-need-you basis. We learned from hours of intensive dialogue with …
Category: Labor Organizing
UAW Picks Nissan Transplant at Canton, Mississippi with Hope and a Prayer
New Orleans When driving up I-55 between New Orleans and Memphis last Friday to work with a ton of groups trying to save historic Foote Homes and finally force real discussion and input for communities about their future in Memphis, hitting Jackson always feels like the halfway point in a quick trip. Hardly past Jackson …
Remembering the Great Art Martin
New Orleans In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock. The …