Toronto: The Community Leadership Centre (www.columbiainstitute.ca) reassembled our organizer trainees in Toronto to have them debrief from their first dozen weeks in the field and do some intensive training on campaign mechanics before their second stint of field assignments. We were a smaller, but hardier crew as we pulled into Victoria College on the University of …
Month: July 2004
Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in Lafayette with Local 100 Leaders
Lafayette: An extra treat for our annual SEIU Local 100 Leadership Conference this year was a last minute addition and an unexpected surprise. One of our office staff approached me on the Friday before we left for Lafayette about how I would feel about some entertainment for the leadership meeting? Why not, I thought. She then …
Blue Moon
Lafayette: The SEIU Local 100 Annual Leadership Conference was going to be held this year in Lafayette, Louisiana. We had won an election for 300 Head Start workers employed by a private non-profit called SMILE in Lafayette at the beginning of this year and had just come to a tentative agreement on the contract. Additionally, we …