February 2, 2009 New Orleans The often coercive and restrictive control that states are now exercising over the TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) monies that replaced the old welfare system during the Clinton Administration finally got some much deserved criticism, through it was buried, in Jason DeParle’s story on the front page of …
Category: Labor Organizing
Doug Allen and SAG
New Orleans Other than on some kind of screen, silver, LED, computer, TV or whatever, I probably would not know a screen actor if one bit me, so I’m probably not qualified to comment on the internal squabbles within the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) and their termination of Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Doug …
Grassroots Labor Rights Enforcement
New Orleans I was talking recently to Kim Bobo about her book, Wage Theft, which makes the clear and irrefutable point that American workers are getting ripped off by a lot of employers. She told me that she was hoping this old school notion of actually enforcing labor laws, especially those designed to protect …