New Orleans The Mueller report has stirred the pot with Attorney General Bill Barr now on the hot seat for having abandoned any pretense of running the Justice Department in favor of joining the table as another one of the president’s lawyers. For Barr it might be a smart strategy because Trump loves lawyers. …
The Challenges of Organizing Gig Workers
When we think about organizing precarious “gig” workers, the task seems biblical. The workers may be ready, or not, but the spirit and the flesh are weak. We all bemoan the rise of gig workers. Low pay, few hours, no benefits are some of them, worsened by the uncertainty of a position where you can …
Labor Department Gigs Workers
New Orleans When talking about the gig economy, a gig is defined as a short-term job, a little something extra even though we have come to find that for some workers all of their work is composed of a series of gigs. Musicians famously called their collection of jobs gigs, but that didn’t mean they …