Minimum wage needs maximum discussion
Posted St. Louis American on September 3, 2015 Last week, the bill to increase the minimum wage from $7.65 to $11 by 2018 squeaked into existence with 16 aldermanic votes. The six nay votes of South City, mainly conservative alders included a lone African-American alderman, Antonio French. Alderman Shane Cohn, the bill’s sponsor, made […]
Workers Day Reflections
A couple of firsts that don’t bode well for our struggle for workers’ rights: Missouri lawmakers passed “Right-to-Work” after several years of futile attempts. Kansas City Labor failed to get it together to organize its traditional Labor Day Parade this year. While St. Louis and Kansas City have increased their minimum wage to $11 and […]
4 Lessons from the Ferguson Uprising
Here are the lessons I’ve thought about over the last year that I believe can be helpful to our racial justice movement locally. Do you have any to share? The existence of COINTELPRO is a fact. Labeling someone as a police informant may not be fact—even if their behavior is disruptive and counter-productive. We must […]