New Orleans In the national publicity one-day strikes for higher wages of $15 per hour that waved their banners in hundreds of cities around the country, no one really believes that the $15 per hour figure is anything other than a rallying cry or in bargaining terms, a first proposal. Organizers, including with the Service …
Category: Organizing
Massachusetts and Wisconsin Already Moving on Minimum Wage Initiatives
Shreveport In looking at the results on the minimum wage ballot vote, particularly in New Jersey, President Obama spoke out again about his support for a minimum wage increase federally from the current $7.25 in a series of steps to $10.10 per hour. He wasn’t the only one speaking out on the need to increase …
Organizing Strategy Based on Solidarity and Power
Houston Thinking about various strategies to rebuild the labor movement is a painful pastime for many organizers, but talking to Peter Olney, the organizing director for the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union, the fabled 60,000 West Coast dockworkers’ powerhouse, on my weekly radio show recently was a good primer on the basics for holding your …