Dallas David Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan, and former prosecutor for the Justice Department, offered some painful reminders today in an op-ed piece in the Times of how deadly work can be and how small the penalties employers pay for the risks to workers. He told a story of …
Category: Labor Organizing
Big Deal in San Francisco
New Orleans John Eller, director of ACORN’s San Francisco office, sent an email while I was in Los Angeles, but I didn’t connect with him until coming in bleary eyed from the all night flight back to the city. The news was huge! ACORN working with the SF affiliate of PICO, the San …
A Horse to Beat A Horse
New Orleans In the war of the knives going on within SEIU, one of the more insidious tactics is the leaking of all manner of internal documents. Today’s Wall Street Journal featured a front page story on a 2005 agreement with Compass and Sodexho to allow organizing neutrality rights at their operations with the …