New Orleans Something very strange happened in the Supreme Court yesterday — perhaps Mercury is in retrograde? In two separate cases by decisive majorities the Supreme Court ruled in favor of workers! Given recent Court decisions American workers have every reason to feel shocked and awed at the willingness of the Supreme Court …
Category: Labor Organizing
Deadly Work
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 …
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 …