The best-laid plans...
...of mice, men, labor unions and mothers oft must be rewritten on the fly. Monday (the official date of this post, even though I'm writing it on Tuesday morning) was a perfect example.
My original plan was to go to Manhattan to attend a rally by the striking home-health-care workers of Service Employees International Union Local 1199, headlined by former Vermont Gov. Dr. Howard Dean. And the union's original plan was for a three-day strike to bring attention to the workers' situation: they get less than $7 an hour of the $17 charged by the agency that employs them.
But by the time the sun came up, my plan had changed: I needed to spend the day at the hospital sorting things out for a family member. As it turned out, the union's plans had to be revised as well, because one of the agencies had settled with the union, and by the end of the day, the union had reached tentative agreements with three others.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @11:35 PM
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