New Orleans When I woke before dawn this morning there was the same acrid smell of burning fires that greets you in Delhi, but I was home. It means there was a fire that our low water pressure could not handle and another abandoned building still standing in the wake of Katrina, had now fallen. …
Category: Labor Organizing
New York Home Child Care Workers!
Los Angeles Something important –and good — is happening for low wage workers, and, yes, Virginia, there are low wage workers even in New York State, particularly the home child care workers laboring under state contracts to provide day care for tens of thousands of working parents. There are a lot of them — 52,000 …
Big Labor and Big Dollars
New Orleans John Sweeney was in town again. Last time he was here he told me the investment funds were going to commit one billion big bucks to the recovery. The number sweated down over the last 4-5 weeks to $700 million by the time his picture was in front of the business page with …