New Orleans Contrary to popular opinion, it is actually a very, very rare event for a New Orleans city politician to go to jail for some kind of corruption, regardless of our reputation. The hometown paper, The Times Picayune, campaigned mercilessly for investigations and convictions of Mayor Marc Morial and his troops, largely to no …
Category: Labor Organizing
Bullseye on Public Sector Workers and Unions
New Orleans For all the talk about the U.S. Congress and what it might do at the hands of the new majority, there’s still a couple of circuit breakers handling too much power surge when business has to go to the Senate or even face a Presidential veto. In the states rouge legislators could be …
NLRB Bulletin Boards: E for Effort, F for Results
New Orleans The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a rule that would require companies to post on their bulletin boards a notice informing workers that they have the legal right to organize. Conservatives, strong adherents of a philosophical belief in “total war” when it comes to class issues, are crying like …