New Orleans Aside from California and Alaska, there is no stronger state for unions than New York, yet for months even before being elected as the new Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo seems to have been targeting unions as has special blame-boys for budget woes in the state. Now indisputable news emerges that he …
Tag: wages
Stealing from Poor Workers
Baltimore Ruth Milkman of UCLA and Nik Theodore of University of Illinois, Chicago are top researchers and obviously savvy enough to put out their study, Broken Promises, Unprotected Workers, as an exclusive to Steve Greenhouse at the Times to get maximum attention to their summary of surveys from over 4000 workers in 2008 which indicates …
Employee Free Choice Compromises
St. Petersburg Meeting with the WARN (Worker Action and Research Network) staff yesterday in St. Pete, we found ourselves talking about Wal-Mart and the organizing challenge represented by huge retail employers like W-M in the US and Canada. All of which brings up the daunting issue of labor law reform and the imbalance now that …