“Smooth Slide to the Floor” for Lower Wage Workers Facing Obamacare

DC Politics Health Care Labor Organizing National Politics

New Orleans    Talking to a senior labor relations director for a health care company yesterday where our union was a terribly cold shower of reality.  This company has 45,000 employees with 34,000 hourly, direct care staff similar to what we represent.  We asked him how they were looking at the Americans Affordable Care Act …

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Tides Recognizes BP Environmental Warriors on Long Gulf Coast Marathon Fight

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans     Twenty-two years ago the Tides Foundation began giving the Jane Bagley Lehman Public Advocacy Awards on an almost annual basis to largely unrecognized local grassroots organizers and activists making a huge difference on major issues in what I have always called “the vineyards.”  During my more than 30 years on the board of …

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