Atlanta It’s not often I get something that seems like a focus group on Citizen Wealth and the issues it raises, but that’s almost exactly what I enjoyed in Atlanta in a class of 35 on the “Economics of Poverty” where as part of the required reading they had gone through my book with a …
Category: Labor Organizing
Pols Pimping for Sodexho
Phoenix I’m not shocked, just disgusted. A couple of days ago the story came out that the giant, French-based minimal wage, international labor contractor, Sodexho, had hired on Dick Gephardt, who in another life was a lion for labor as the one-time minority leader for the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, who often …
M&M’s for School Breakfast
Houston Listening to the reports in our all day, all union staff meeting in Houston, one caught my ear because at first couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has represented the bulk of the Houston support workers in the Houston Independent School District for over 18 years. The …