New Orleans For five years whenever I’ve been asked for advice from various national campaigns whether immigration reform or healthcare or living wages or whatever, when it’s come to how to move President Obama, I’ve always argued, don’t lobby, don’t email, don’t tweet, point all the heat you can generate directly at him. His record …
Category: National Politics
Political Spoilers from the Left
Baltimore Ok, the Tea Party is full of known whacks. We all know that. We can all agree that they were dead as a doornail as a mass-based organization. Recently, they staged a series of rallies during the recess that had to be scrubbed, because nobody came. Everyone agrees that they are totally off the …
Good Jobs Nation, 4C, and DOL Wage Determination Appeals
New Orleans One of the things I missed while on my work-cation in Montana was the emergence of a newish labor-backed workers advocacy organization called Good Jobs Nation. The unions backing this play are SEIU, Teamsters, and the Farmworkers, all members of the Change To Win (C2W) federation, as was the UFCW, another supporter, until …