Pearl River I’ve known Ana Avendano for a long time. I’ve never known her well, but over decades our paths would cross. She was a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and had the immigration rights portfolio, when there seemed the promise of reform. She was a guest at an ACORN National Board meeting in Little …
Category: Unions
Union Leaders, Good Mayors, and AI Bots
Marble Falls Local 100 has conducted an annual leadership training workshop for stewards for more than 40 years, but this year’s session in Little Rock was the first in-person meeting since the pandemic. It was good to see old and new leaders getting to meet each other, often for the first time. Going …
Transparency for Tenants
Little Rock Northwest Arkansas is a curious contradiction. Fifty years ago, it was an outlier in the state. Sure, the big university was in Fayetteville up there, but to get there meant leaving the interstate near Fort Smith and hoping you weren’t caught on the pig trails going north behind an 18-wheeler with feathers …