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Hitting the Doors in Edinburgh

 

First team of EPTAG / ACORN doorkockers after a successful afternoon on the doors. — in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Edinburgh  Jon Black of the Edinburgh Private Tenant Action Group (EPTAG) had done a nifty bit of research to figure out where the giant cooperative ScotMid owned apartments that they were renting.  He figured that the 100-year [...]

Benefit Handles Fueling Edinburgh Tenant Organizing

Edinburgh     There’s nothing like good old fashion, benefit campaigns to light the fire under organizing drives, and it seems that the Edinburgh Private Tenants Action Group (EPTAG) has a number of great handles to choose from in moving to accelerate the growth and power of the organization.  Later today I’m joining a half-dozen of the [...]

Chaos and Revolution versus the Hard Grind of Organization

 

Activists from Citizens Initiatives

Prague   Having been to Prague before in the winter and the fall where rain, cold, and snow were the default conditions, a sunny spring day was a surprise.  Looking out the window from the 13th floor of the cooperative apartment block where organizer Michal Ulvr lived the endless buildings in yellow, [...]

Does a “Right to Organize” Notice Matter

New Orleans  The very conservative US District Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. overturned the proposed requirement issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in December 2010, requiring all employers to post a notice advising workers that they had the right to organize.  The decision is an exercise in tomfoolery since the DC Appeals [...]

Kaiser Aftermath: How About Some Competition to Organize Healthcare Workers?

Little Rock       Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same result with a wider margin as Kaiser hospital workers in California overwhelming voted for [...]

The New Battlegrounds for Disability Rights

New Orleans  Sometimes in organizing we can see bits and pieces that seem isolated from place to place start to come together more firmly into something that might be greater than the sum of some small parts.  Perhaps this is happening now for advocates and adherents of disability rights over the issues of accommodation in [...]