New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …
Tag: local 100
M&M’s for School Breakfast
Houston Listening to the reports in our all day, all union staff meeting in Houston, one caught my ear because at first couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has represented the bulk of the Houston support workers in the Houston Independent School District for over 18 years. The …
Living Wages for Garbage Workers
Dallas A meeting of Local 100 leaders and stewards may be one of the only places in the country where you can hear a lively discussion break out over dinner on the merits and demerits of arm hoist back loading trucks versus side and front loaders and the relative dangers of a 96 gallon versus …