New Orleans Reading an surprisingly good article in the New York Times about the union fight in Indonesia against the great mega-retailer Carrefour to win rights for contract workers that they thought they had gained in a strike earlier this year, I was struck by how blind we all are to similar worker exploitation right …
Category: Labor Organizing
Celebrating Wage Increases and Asking Santa for More in the Future
New Orleans ACORN was a great organization and some of the gifts from its membership to their neighbors and co-workers keep on giving, despite the fact that the organization shut its doors 13 months ago in the United States. No better example can be found in the automatic increases …
Do NLRB Election Changes Matter If No One is Organizing
New Orleans The surviving members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published a final rulemaking on some “modest” (quoting Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO) changes to election procedures this week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has quickly announced that they will file suit to block the regulations as an …