11/02/2007 - 5:08pm
Two years after Katrina, a panel of union leaders tell the ILCA convention that conservatives used the disaster to impose some of their pet ideas such as privatization and creating a disposable workforce.
11/02/2007 - 4:59pm
Right-wing strategist Grover Norquist is famous for saying he wanted to shrink government to the point where "it could be drowned in a bathtub." Little did most folks know that bathtub would be the Gulf Coast, including New Orleans .
11/02/2007 - 5:03pm
Labor's reconstruction effort in New Orleans is going one house at a time--at a manufactured housing factory outside town--and one construction worker at a time, at a graduation ceremony for pre-apprentices, sponsored by the Building Trades.
11/02/2007 - 5:05pm
Repairing bridge, levee system is all in a day's work
11/02/2007 - 5:02pm
Forgotten in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
11/02/2007 - 5:05pm
Carpenters from around the country make sure Local 1846 and its members don't go under
11/05/2007 - 8:41pm
The area immediately east of New Orleans was laid waste more than two years ago, yet still looks like a war zone. Only a third of the 67,000 people who once lived in Saint Bernard Parish have returned, to a community without hospitals, libraries or a functioning sewage system. Amid all this devastation, there is just one organization helping homeowners rebuild--and it just started on its 100th rehab.
11/02/2007 - 4:54pm
“Inspirational” is an overworked adjective in our collective vocabulary, but it can surely be used to describe much of what’s happening in New Orleans today.
11/05/2007 - 1:18am
An overview of what New Orleans is, two years, two months after Katrina, why it's so bad--and how labor, alone of everyone, is doing something to help the recovery, despite obstacles.
11/02/2007 - 5:12pm
NOFF Local 632 fire fighters find surviving Katrina is an all-alarm battle.
