Tampa The Wal-Mart Workers Association has been visible, vocal, and vehement for almost 9 months in the Tampa Bay and Orlando area about the fact that schedules are killing the workforce. On one hand our members are not getting enough hours of work to afford to live and on the other the workers are being …
Category: Labor Organizing
Elephant in the Room?
Minneapolis Zephyr Teachout was as close to an underground legend as the Deaniac’s had in the comet rise and explosion of their campaign. A high-charged, whip smart woman who had jumped in early and felt the movement going and became its apostle. She was not a techie, but someone who used the tools like a …
Over the Transom
New Orleans As part of the grist for the mill, I thought I would share a couple of pointed — and poignant — notes that came over the transom to me this week. The first is from Orell Fitzsimmons who is SEIU Local 100’s Organizing Director based in Houston on the even of the May …