SEIU, in a new independent-expenditure campaign in California, has launched a new ad seizing on the Meg Whitman-housekeeper scandal that has rocked the gubernatorial campaign since Gloria Allred’s press conference yesterday with Nicandra Diaz Santillan, who served for nine years in the Harsh/Whitman household as housekeeper and nanny.

The Tokenator lectures the SEIU over its support of Prop 19 in California. Does the word ‘hypocrisy’ mean anything to the far right?

Leaked Powerpoint demonstrates DNC contempt for progressive voices against the mandate

If you or your family haven’t needed a home care worker lately, I am guessing these workers haven’t made a blip on your radar. That’s OK. I want to give some information about these folks and let you in on something so few are aware of: They are excluded from the FLSA — for some unknown reason. This can change however and I am looking for input on how we can do this, together.

If your elderly or disabled family member, who chooses to live at home, needed assistance with daily care, would you try to get the same babysitter you call on for date nights with your spouse? Of course you wouldn’t.

Unionized bank workers from Brazil, England, Chile, Germany, and Uruguay are encouraging American workers to undertake an unprecedented campaign against a common enemy: Grupo Santander,

Dear Sodexo, this is what happens when you chronically underpay your workers and fail to provide affordable health care coverage.

Can you believe that some workers are legally excluded from getting the minimum wage? Is that f…ing nuts?

More info on the new progressive ‘One Nation’ coalition and a liberals’ Oct. 2 March on Washington

There was a strange meeting hosted by President Obama and some administration officials at the White House this week for a small group of immigration reform advocates including Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, Eliseo Medina of SEIU, the head of the National Council of La Raza, and a couple of others, surprisingly even a representative of the Florida DREAM folks.