New Orleans Sensitive, internal memos and financial information are leaking like a sieve exposing vulnerabilities in some of our storied unions. This hurts workers and all of us. In labor we need some real leadership and something likea “Geneva convention” or “Marquis of Queensberry” rules for how to handle internal conflict within unions without eroding …
Tag: SEIU
Crawfishing on Employee Choice
New Orleans A full page ad ran in my local paper in New Orleans thanking Senator Mary Landrieu from SEIU. Must be reverse psychology, because Louisiana’s senior senator is just leaving workers twisting in the wind or worse. A friend in a sister local told me the other day that she had run into the …
City Works Less
Chicago I have become fascinated – maybe obsessed – by mentally measuring the changes, small and perhaps significant, that are being imprinted by the current depression. Being in an area in Chicago I have often and regularly visited near Fullerton and Clark near Lincoln Park let me note some shifts. Chicago is still in some …