Is progress necessarily progressive?
Sawant said she could see $15 ordinances in towns less progressive than Seattle, so long as low-wage workers put them on the agenda.
However, earlier this week, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government brought in an ordinance to "negate" the court's order and "soften the blow on convicted MPs and legislators".
"The astronomers made the difference this time," she says, "and I hope they will provide the impetus to amend our light ordinances to make them even more progressive and protective of the industry".
She drove a progressive policy agenda through the city council, including an ordinance to end discrimination in the hiring of Houston city employees based on their sexual orientation.
The WFP, which progressives nationwide see as a model for enacting things higher wage ordinances and unseating conservative Democratic incumbents, stood accused of selling out in 2010 when it endorsed Cuomo despite his anti-labor rhetoric.
He gave pep talks in Georgia and Kentucky, where he urged progressives to build alliances around labor issues, whether it's big-box ordinances or worker protections in city contracts.
Joe Moreno (1st), who has been widely described as Chicago City Council's "hipster" representative for his love of punk rock, karaoke and progressive public policy, last week said that he was beginning work on a new ordinance that would ban the use of plastic bags by retailers occupying stores larger than 5,000-square-feet 5,000-square-feet 5,000-square-feet
And after Miami-Dade County passed a progressive law aimed at curbing wage theft, the retail industry led an effort last year to have such local ordinances banned by state law.
Anti-sweatshop advocates are stunned by progressive San Francisco's granting to garment contractors five-year exemptions from the city's historic "sweat-free" procurement ordinance.
