New Orleans I’m not sure if we are moving towards the end of the college bowl cycle or in the middle? The big bowl games, like the Sugar, Rose, Cotton, and Orange are now BCS bowls, and the biggest bowl is the Championship right around the corner in the Louisiana Superdome. But, there are scores …
Category: Labor Organizing
Right-to-Work Equals Less Unions
New Orleans Rarely do we see the evidence of plain and simple attacks on unions any clearer than in the reports quoted by Steve Greenhouse in today’s New York Times. In an article about the impending fight in Indiana where the Republican union haters and labor baiters are mounting an effort to impose so-called “right-to-work” …
Business Assistance Living Wage Campaigns
New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” …