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“Living Wage…What Could Be Better than That?”

Ottawa The members listened intently and applauded frequently as they were addressed by friends from the Canadian labor movement.  Unfortunately what they were hearing was less a Canadian problem than part of an orchestrated international attack by governments and corporations on basic employment standards and unions.

Sean McKenny, President of the Ottawa District Labour Council, [...]

June 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: ACORN International, canada | Leave a comment

Initiative Campaigns Could Save Unions and Obama in Ohio in 2012

New Orleans In a wild case of unintended consequences the current Republican attack on unions in New Jersey, Indiana, [...]

March 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Ideas and Issues | Leave a comment

Los Mineros and Napoleon Gomez’s Exile

Prince George, British Columbia I wanted to hear Napoleon Gomez Urrutia speak to the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) leaders gathered in the northern part of the province to look at how their union connects to the community.  Gomez is Secretary General of the 250,000+ member Union of Mining, Metallurgical, Steel and [...]

October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: International, Labor Organizing, Organizing | One comment

Hospitality Wars Close to Settlement

 

            New Orleans               It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement.  Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item on [...]

December 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Ideas and Issues, Labor Organizing, Organizing, Uncategorized | Leave a comment