Grenoble As I mark the calendar closer to the finish on my euro-hella-road-trip, reading the news and seeing the videos on-line first from Dallas, where of course we have an office and members, and then over and over again from Baton Rouge last weekend and now more recently, where we also have a union hall …
Tag: Baton Rouge
The Havoc of Vote Suppression Using Provisional Ballots
New Orleans In trying to suppress citizen rights to vote the use of provisional ballots are a sop thrown to the disappointed voter largely to pretend that their votes will count. This fiction is starting to fall on hard times. In the elections being reported in Kenya’s national elections where millions waited in mile-long lines …
Is Rough Worker “Care” an Indication of Bad Client Care?
New Orleans Here’s a dilemma. Our union, Local 100, United Labor Unions, represents a lot of workers in the Greater New Orleans, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge areas who live in small, residential “community” homes, as they are called, who are developmentally disabled. Some of the companies are large, some are smaller, some have been nonprofit …