Krakow We talked to a number of union organizers and academic experts on unions and labor markets while the Organizers’ Forum was visiting Warsaw. The simple conclusion was that there is not much of it going on. There are two primary labor federations, one the famous thirty-five year old Solidarnosc, relatively speaking a shadow of …
Month: September 2015
The Labor Leader’s Last Shout of the Swan Song
Warsaw Once the mess was out in the open and Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan spilled the beans on his Facebook page about all of the sharp elbowed, behind the scenes jostling that makes up 95% of all of labor’s internal politics, virtually any and all union members knew it was all over …
Europe Going South and East
Warsaw The Organizers’ Forum delegation began our meetings at the Warsaw School of Economics with Dr. Jan Czarzasty who is a specialist in labor markets and provided us with a helpful context for understanding the major issues of Poland’s political economy. It was an education! He noted early in his presentation to us, while responding …