Posted on April 27, 2012 by Lou
Click “Labor” on Romney’s official website to see how Mitt intends to peel off working-class voters including union members: Titled “Free Enterprise, Free Choice, Free Speech,” and acknowledging that “unions have made extraordinarily important contributions to American society” the reader is then warned that “today, the effects of unionization have changed in ways that need [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2012 by Lou
Reading the LA Times Book Review in the 1990s made me proud to be a Southern Californian. Under former editor Steve Wasserman (now an author’s agent), the Sunday section was gaining stature among the literary elite and was even being favorably compared to the legendary New York Times Book Review. I’m not going to waste [...]
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Posted on April 13, 2012 by Lou
When I moved to Los Angeles 30 years ago, Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach looked like a hippie parody. It had a counter-cultural veneer, but didn’t rate as an authentic bohemian hot spot. Contrast, for example, with New York’s East Village with its revolutionaries, junkies, artists and various iconoclasts living side-by-side. The weekend spectacle [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2012 by Lou
Though we edge out Costa Ricans, according to the recently-released U.N. World Happiness Report, Americans are not quite as content as our friends in Ireland. In fact, we don’t even make the top 10. Predictably, Nordic people lead the pack, with Denmark, Finland and Norway winning gold, silver and bronze. Our northern neighbors in Canada [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2012 by Lou
APRIL The nomination is settled and radical conservatives stop pummeling republican “elites” MAY Romney becomes more disciplined, learns to stay “on message” while ramping up his savage attacks on the president JUNE Democrats’ misgivings about Obama evaporate as republican constituencies become increasingly hysterical about America’s “illegitimate” president JULY Barack’s unflappable persona – he never flinches [...]
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Posted on April 1, 2012 by Lou
Among the biggest obstacles to union survival or revival are antiquated organizational structures. The recent merger of two Hollywood unions – The Screen Actors Guild [SAG] and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists [AFTRA] – is a sensible response to changing workplace conditions. Many of the consolidations of the past several years involve [...]
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