Ankara Not easy figuring out the way unions are put together in Turkey, but after several meetings, it seems possible to sketch out the basic process. We talked an organizer for the printing and packaging union at some length, then met with the executive committee for a unionized and recently formed cooperative printing operations, …
Month: September 2006
Government versus the State?
Ankara Yildirim Koc, a veteran of 30 years in the labor movement, 3 years in a Turkish prison after the ’80 coup for his trouble, and currently an economist, writer, and teacher as well, opened our first Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) session with a thorough view of the history of labor over the last 100 years. His …
Giving Coke Fits
Athens Another email alert came through from the India Resource Center, which has been at the vanguard of fighting Coca Cola especially in India. I also regularly get emails from something called “KillerCoke,” which the company also must just love! The campaign had a breakthrough several weeks ago when they were virtually banned by two …