New Orleans Cooperatives are something that many of us hold up as models of how things might work in a better – and different – world than the one where we now live and work. Rural electric cooperatives display their democratic and membership principles as part of the cooperative movement since the 1930s on …
Tag: South Carolina
One People Under the Moon and Sun
Columbia Our ACORN Home Savers Campaign committee had been in Charlotte, North Carolina and was scheduled for Columbia, South Carolina some 90 minutes away. Panic pedaling about massive numbers of visitors and traffic jams because of the 2 ½ minutes scheduled for the city because of the total eclipse, had us on the road at …
Machinists Prove Labor Board Leverage Has Value, When it Works
Little Rock To great fanfare the Machinists and its District Lodge (local union) 751 announced a new precedent setting deal with Boeing in Washington. There was plenty of sugar in this coffee! Reports on the 4-year package included an 8% bump in wages when inflation is now less than 1%, improved pension formulas, a $5000 …