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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Governors United Against Low-and-Moderate Income Families: Sales vs. Income Taxes
New Orleans This is all getting to be very scary. At first you think, wow, how can this be happening here, and then you realize that you are not living through some kind of sick social experiment of reverse Robin Hoodism, but instead are just one test tube of a right wing Republican lab experiment …
Tides Recognizes BP Environmental Warriors on Long Gulf Coast Marathon Fight
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 …