Kenya Campaigns Coming

Johannesburg Sitting here with a day to kill in the Joberg airport and ruing having just spent 75 rand for a special South African adapter so I can make it through and finding the young clerk at the “Electronics Megastore” joining me in commiseration that there was no free wireless anywhere in the airport, it [...]

Hospitality Unionization Brings up the Rear

New Orleans Well, Happy Valentine’s Day!  Makes me think of millions of people going out to restaurants, lounges, movies, theaters, and wherever and toasting their sweeties,  and then usually not leaving much of a tip later for the servers.  Where’s the love?

Wherever it might be, it’s not for unions.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]

Worker Poverty in Sweat Shopping

New Orleans               An article by Ken Silverstein in Harper’s Magazine in the January 2010 issue labeled a “letter from Cambodia” and entitled “Shopping for Sweat:  The Human Cost of a Two-Dollar T-shirt” caught by eye immediately because of the controversy around Jeff Ballinger’s critique on the infinitesimally small progress that workers have made after years [...]

Tim Costello: Labor Activist Extraordinaire!

New Orleans A week ago I was in Boston.  Knowing I would be in Cambridge at the Harvard Coop, I sent an email to my friend and colleague, Tim Costello, suggesting he come over if he had a minute and visit and pick up a book.  The weather was miserably cold and wet, so I [...]

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