New Orleans Two months after the Katrina we were finally able to make our way back down to New Orleans and spend a night in our own home in our own bed for the first time on Saturday night. I went by the rally called by ACORN, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, the NAACP, and others on the …
Category: Labor Organizing
Wal-Mart Says Raise the Minimum Wage?!?
Tampa You’ve said it before, I know you have, and so have I. When it snows on the 4th of July, then so and so will happen, whatever might fit the most outrageous description imaginable. The Red Sox will win the Series. The White Sox will make it to the World Series. New Orleans will be …
Organizing Workers at the Frontier
Dallas For 18 years we have held an annual labor board/staff retreat with all of the troops of Local 880 and Local 100 SEIU. This year was different in a lot of ways. First, we were meeting at South Fork Ranch in Dallas. Everyone kept asking how we came to South Fork, the scene of the …