Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their staff at Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, it was only a matter of time that we stopped talking about Citizen …
Month: April 2010
Assault on Home Care Workers
Detroit There were several excellent discussions I enjoyed at the Labor Notes Conference that focused on the challenges and lessons learned in organizing home health and home day care workers. In Citizen Wealth and anywhere else I have argued that the one indisputable success in the last generation of labor organizing has been the breakthrough …
Arizona: Immigration Alamo or Selma?
Detroit Mark Brenner of Labor Notes hit the nail on the head in talking with me: they were doing great, he said, but the labor movement was doing terribly. The point is worth more thought and discussion, but it also made me think about other movements that are at a crossroads as well, and the …