New Orleans The world is in turmoil. Make no mistake, the issue is jobs. Day after day young workers, students, and unemployed French youth have hit the streets to protest a change in employment law proposed by Villipen, the French premier. In the face of unemployment rates for youth pushing to the 30% level, the …
Category: Labor Organizing
Michigan Raises Minimum Wage!
New Orleans Governor Jennifer Granholm made some important history for lower wage workers in Michigan by signing a bill to raise the minimum wage in that state. The Republican controlled legislature had gotten the message — loud and clear — that a signature drive being conducted by ACORN and labor allies was likely to be …
Cost of Homelessness?
San Francisco It took a long time for me to acquire the New Yorker habit. It was colorless, East Coast, preppie affectation by gawd, and I was having nothing to do with it. Over time things changed. I was buying John McPhee books and loving them, and I could read his stuff there first. …