Grady, Arkansas Driving through the Southern Arkansas delta in the spring is a treat. Trees are still working on putting on leaves and a bit naked from the winter, but the azaleas are blooming, setting off the green shooting up everywhere in the fields. Tractors are pulling out from the side roads with huge chemical …
Category: Labor Organizing
Hungry for Head Start Justice in San Diego
New Orleans: Keeping up with the email traffic yesterday one message stood out from the rest. It seems that in San Diego Head Start workers, their leaders and officials from their union, SEIU Local 2028 (www.seiu2028.org ), were on a one-week fast to protest their working conditions and the lack of bargaining progress. I …
Life on the Beach
Miami: This is the season for spring break for college students. Thousands — tens of thousands — of college students and other young folks from here and there tromp down to the beaches all over Florida, and Miami if they can get here. Funny time to have a meeting in the midst of all …