New Orleans Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, whatever, you pick what new phone app-driven techno billionaire wannabes, you worry about, and I’ll pick mine. Deep in your heart, you know Uber is taking advantage of its drivers and ripping everyone off on taxes and Social Security, but perhaps more deeply, the taxicab industry seemed be asking …
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Surely These Old Codgers Can Stop Age Discrimination
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about getting old, but as everyone says, it’s still better than the alternative. Increasingly there seems to be an emerging crisis that older people and older workers may run out of money way before they run out of time. Given the huge demographic bulge of the baby boomers, if there’s …
The Painful Tragedy of the Digital Divide
Little Rock For more almost 25 years, Local 100 United Labor Unions has represented school support workers mostly in Texas and Louisiana from Head Start to high school from teachers to bus drivers to cafeteria workers and janitors. Most of our work is concentrated in the cities now, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and …