What can take you years of organizing and struggle to win can be smashed in the span of weeks. Or, at least, it appears that Republicans will make this happen if Louisiana’s labor movement doesn’t put boots on the ground right away.

After the recent weather event on January 16th, many City workers were not informed by their supervisors that Civil Leave was available or how to access it. Many workers were told they could only "work from home, make up time or use Annual Leave." In some cases, workers only heard CL was available from co-workers who knew it was available, asked for and received it.