New Orleans Reading the New Orleans Times-Picayune this morning was troubling. I had thought about this problem before, but was confronted with too many telling and disturbing statistics to continue to ignore it today. Like everyone, I want to believe that Teach for America and similar programs are good, not just for the young folks …
Category: Labor Organizing
Blog B-Roll
This is a blog being written while the Fox News Documentary cameras are hovering literally a couple of feet away. They are shooting B-roll and coming to the author event at Octavia Books tonight for Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families. When I polled friends, family, and readers of the Chief Organizer …
So Long Card Check
New Orleans Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times today what most in the labor movement have come to expect for quite a while: card check is not going to emerge in any final labor law reform at this time. Card check, as many must know, is a procedure allowing for recognition of a union as …