April 24, 2014 / AltLabor

Now I Organize With POWER

It isn’t accurate to call this news any more, I guess. It has been almost 2 months since I stepped down from ROC. If you didn’t know, you may be confused by my recent quote in…

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August 8, 2012 / How I Survived The Great Recession

All Of Philly’s Recent Economic Growth In Low Waged Jobs? Yup.

Jake Blumgart reports this week on a post on American City.org that restaurants and hospitality providers pretty much added 20% of all new jobs in the last year… “Philadelphia lost 8,700 jobs in the last year….…

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October 6, 2011 / How I Survived The Great Recession

Norris calls for jobs at home, not in Iraq.

Norris is a member of Steamfitters Local 638 (NYC). He told me how he and his fellow co-coworkers have hardly had any work in the past two years. He told me that even the little things…

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