There is no more union in New Orleans

[Hannah Bell]

Please include what is happening in New Orleans in your documentary.

Research on reforms has some excellent data. I am attaching two reports they put out that are particularly disturbing.

Also there was a scandal last year when a third party recruitment company hired by charter schools in Louisiana held some 300 teachers from the Philippines as indentured servants until the union in NO helped them file suit:

http://www.asianjournal.com/fil-am-news/3-filamnews/6435-filipino-teachers-in-us-file-suit-vs-recruiters-.html

There is no more union in NO. This summer they closed their doors. The teachers are terrified to talk as they will lose their jobs.

http://normsnotes2.blogspot.com/2010/10/there-is-no-more-union-in-new-orleans.html

[maryf]

1. Katrina's devestation..,

is eternal, K&R

[unhappycamper]

2. It's bu$hco devastation.

Not a bunch has been done in the five years since Katrina.

Obama isn't doing much as he is spending 58% of all discretionary funding on war and war toys. Nothing will happen until the United States gets out of the sandbox.

[maryf]

12. Yep...

Katrina is just a scapegoat and was a really good excuse to implement disaster capitalism...(like the capitalists don't find excuses anywhere)...gotta print out a new pie chart of the war costs...

[pinboy3niner]

3. When I went to Ohio to volunteer for Kerry in '04...

...we worked in the dusty old union hall across from the old, defunct steel mill that had once been owned, in part, by George H. W. Bush.

The decline of unions coincided with the decline of the working class--the middle class of America.

Today, I see constant attacks against unions from the Right. Trying to finish off the unions once and for all?

Today, I thank God for a strong, visionary union leader like Trumka.

[Hannah Bell]

4. "owned, in part, by George H. W. Bush." that's interesting, which steel mill?

[pinboy3niner]

5. I don't remember the name, but it was on the South side of Columbus

[Hannah Bell]

8. not buckeye steel castings?

[pinboy3niner]

10. Yes, that's the one

[Starry Messenger]

6. Mission Accomplished.

:( This is what Arne Duncan wants for the rest of the country. And his boss too, I guess.

[Brickbat]

7. It pains me that we are going to have to fight those battles all over again. We're at the point

where our help can't be legislated for us. The total lack of movement on EFCA infuriates me and has made me hugely disappointed in this administration. We're going to have to do it our damn selves, just as we've always done.

[LWolf]

9. Arne thinks Katrina was a big help to New Orleans education. nt

[Dappleganger]

11. Congrats, Arne.

What else can Santa bring you this year??

[Tatiana]

13. This is what they want to do across the country.

It's up to the remaining unions to stand up and fight for the right to organize.

Very disappointing, but not unsurprising since another one of our ex-Daley Chicago boys (Paul Vallas) took over the schools there and immediately began the charter school deforming process.