New Orleans In training organizers, one thing I always remind them as they begin an organizing drive in a neighborhood, housing block, or workplace is to always ask and listen carefully when they talk to people, so that they can unearth what has come before them in this struggle. In my book, a …
Overtime Up, Minimum Wage Frozen
New Orleans The Department of Labor has now issued its final rule for wage and salary levels that define eligibility for overtime payments at time-and-a-half of the hourly wage. After years of being stuck at a relatively low threshold, the needle moved during the Obama administration, but the even more worker-friendly Biden administration …
Arrests Fuel the Flames of Protests
New Orleans “Oh, when will they ever learn?” The tag line from the old Pete Seeger rendition of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” locked in my brain, as I read about the campus arrests at Columbia and Yale Universities of pro-Palestinian protestors. I have to wonder who advises these fancy, elite college presidents, …