Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held in Milwaukee and it gave me an excuse for several days to see what was really happening here at ground zero in the class war that …
Category: Labor Organizing
“Justice Will Be Served” for Nail Salon Workers as Opportunity Knocks
New Orleans A week long jury trial in federal court gave five nail salon worker employed by a Korean-owned chain in Long Island almost $250,000 in back pay and overtime for Fair Labor Standard Act violations for underpayment below minimum wages. The case for these marginal, often ignored service workers was brought forward by a …
Is Rough Worker “Care” an Indication of Bad Client Care?
New Orleans Here’s a dilemma. Our union, Local 100, United Labor Unions, represents a lot of workers in the Greater New Orleans, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge areas who live in small, residential “community” homes, as they are called, who are developmentally disabled. Some of the companies are large, some are smaller, some have been nonprofit …