New Orleans A week long jury trial in federal court gave five nail salon worker employed by a Korean-owned chain in Long Island almost $250,000 in back pay and overtime for Fair Labor Standard Act violations for underpayment below minimum wages. The case for these marginal, often ignored service workers was brought forward by a …
Category: Organizing
Is the Occupy Movement Dead, Alive, or Being Reborn?
Little Rock The Occupy Little Rock (OLR) encampment is close to celebrating its 6-month anniversary and still ensconced firmly in their space near the Interstate and not far from the Clinton Library. When my meetings are over today, I’ll drive by and see how they are making it. I was part of a panel …
Clean Rivers, Working Families, and Big Ideas
Pittsburgh Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen Hayden Deckard, former ACORN office director in Pittsburgh now doing the same for ACTION United. In no time we were visiting with CWA and other union workers rallying at Verizon to support their contract fight, and then sitting down …