New Orleans Randy Shaw, the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and its burgeoning empire, first challenged me to think about whether the new FLSA overtime guidelines would prevent any future prospects of building a farmworkers’ movement or an ACORN, both of which famously focused on building an army of volunteer and professional organizers …
The Passing of the Champ, Muhammed Ali, and Everyone’s Highlight Reels
New Orleans It’s not like if we had thought about it that we didn’t all know the day was coming, steadily, softly, but still, like all deaths, the passing of the great boxer, Muhammed Ali, at 74 in Arizona still surprises. In his own way Ali stood for an entire generation in all his complexity. …
Union-backed Walmart and McDonalds’ Campaigns Face Uncertain Futures
New Orleans The emperor with no clothes is not a pretty sight, and it’s almost as bad when the finger pointing at him is Dave Jamieson, a labor reporter for the Huffington Post in a piece entitled “Labor Groups are Taking on Walmart and McDonalds. But Who Will Fund the Fight?” I don’t have anything …