New Orleans In a way we started this, because ACORN put the initiative on the ballot with our allies and raised the minimum wage in Florida, the lowest wage that can be paid in that state is now $6.40 per hour. So when a Domino’s Pizza operation in Pensacola tried to get around paying the …
Category: Labor Organizing
Our Friends on Wages and Borders
New Orleans E-mail notices over night were more interesting than usual. Staff in India welcomed newcomers on a different time zone. In St. Louis we finally were getting some “pushback” traction in the Post-Dispatch on the voter suppression campaign being run against us. Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, sent me the final copy of …
Labor’s Cutting Edge?
Little Rock For the 19th time leaders and staff of SEIU Local 100 (www.seiu100.org) headquartered in New Orleans but with organizers also in Arkansas and Texas and SEIU Local 880 based in Chicago but now with members in every nook and cranny of Illinois and expanding operations in Indiana and soon Kansas, came together in …