San Luis Potosi News of a bill passing at least part of the Congress seemed like we had a chance still for New Orleans to survive. The world of New Orleans work stretches down to the central Mexican highlands. A man on the street asks where I’m from and when New Orleans is the answer, …
Category: Labor Organizing
How Different is Manager Mark?
Monterrey CNN mentioned a Wal-Mart manager being fired in Bradenton, Florida for racial profiling of an African-American businessman. Wal-Mart says in effect: this doesn’t happen here. Something rings a bell. I consult with Organizer 5, who had worked the Bradenton area with her team. I mention that a male manager was fired and the reasons. …
Lessons of Katrina
Houston The annual Year End / Year Begin meeting of all of the ACORN family of organizations was dislocated, but the tribes had all gathered — the purple shirts of Local 880, the welcomed addition of the New York Working Families Party, all of the A-CLOC and Wal-Mart related organizers, and obviously everyone drawing a …