New Orleans There are some hard lessons that union organizers could share with political organizers these days about the consequences of the politics of conflict and the dangers of disgust, none of which are necessarily what people would like to hear. The tactical pressure cooker of controversy and counterclaims in an NLRB union election coupled …
Category: National Politics
Labor Daze and Labor Waves
New Orleans On the eve of another ritual of picnicking and the last gasps of the summer that we celebrate as Labor Day, there will be the ritual mentioning of the value of labor and hard work, commentary on the recession, and even some mention about the value of unions in certain geographies where we …
ACORN Canada, ACORN International, Many Others Banned from FEMA Funding
New Orleans Props to Dave Weigel of Slate.com for bringing to the public a better understanding of how the Republican U. S. Congress is so consumed by hater-ation that they can’t see the desperate needs of victims of disaster because they are still blinded in the fog of their ghostbusting of the tragically defunct ACORN. …