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 …
Category: Labor Organizing
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 …
Blue-Green Coalitions
San Francisco: This is the season when the blue of the morning sky is at its darkest and most beautiful blue an hour before dawn. This morning the wind had been shaking the hotel room and on the bay the waves were whipping and gulls were flying in place and making no progress. Closer to …