New Orleans This is embarrassing, but not surprising. A last ditch lawsuit filed by a bunch of bottom fishing, low wage employers in the Louisiana seafood, forestry, sugar, and hotel and amusement park industries, won a 60-day delay from the US Department of Labor preventing fair and living wages from being paid to the more …
Category: Labor Organizing
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government Admits Boo-boo on “Days of Rage”
New Orleans I admit that I check the Google alerts everyday to see how the alternative universe is doing where this other “wade rathke” lives, who is often unrecognizable to me. The most recent episode in his “life,” was some kind of “days of rage” planned for Wall Street, which was quite the buzz …
Vic Bussie’s Death Marks Passage of Another Labor Milestone
New Orleans Victor Bussie had two careers as president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO for over 40 years with half at the zenith of the body’s power and influence in the state and the other half on its downward cycle. First elected in 1956 for a long time Vic was known with labor as the only …