Citi Crashing

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Citi Crashing             New Orleans               The Times ran a long pre-mortem piece on Sunday about the crash and fall of Citigroup over the last year or so, particularly now as its stock has fallen to less than $5 per share and this “world’s largest bank” is on life support in the financial markets and the …

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Attacking Alexi

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Attacking Alexi November 22, 2008                 New Orleans                      One of the most interesting and exciting people that our delegation with the Organizers’ Forum met when we traveled to Russia in 2007 was a rank-and-file union steward at the Ford plant in St. Petersburg named Alexei Etmanov, who after leading a wildcat strike had become a …

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