New York City: Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together. Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …
Month: October 2004
Unions in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam was a port city swarming with people, market places, single lane traffic, hustle and bustle. Either I was homesick or I felt like I was home. When the country was controlled by the left ruling party for many years, the labor movement was part of the scene, but not independent. …
Organizing in the African Informal Economy
Dar es Salaam Throughout my visits in Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, I asked some of the same questions, particularly to union brothers and sisters and the comrades in the allied trades that supported unions in one way or another. One question was always about density coupled with the system of dues collection and the level …