New Orleans Local 100 has an election today for about 50 school custodial workers with a private contractor from out of state. After many elections you can almost smell victory or defeat. Looking at the vital statistics of this organizing drive, this one smells like a winner. Wisconsin and today’s vote on the recall of …
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Comcast Concedes Up Selling, Cox & Times-Warner Continue Silence, and FCC Snoozes
New Orleans The cynicism that surrounds the claims of cable companies and the FCC around lowering the “digital divide” continues to move from cloudy skies to deepest fog with absolutely no action from the FCC to solve the problem, enforce its own order, or prevent embarrassment from its own prior, public announcements. The FCC has …
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 …