New Orleans The huge story by Mimi Schwartz in the New York Times Magazine section ran on June 10, 2007, almost a year ago under the banner of “Shop Stewards on Fantasy Island,” and at the time seemed to be an opening salvo in a major initiative by SEIU, as the USA’s largest union …
Author: wade
Organizing Universals
Frankfurt Leaving India and reflecting on my most recent days in Mumbai, I was struck by some of the small, but poignant things that I found in some ways quietly moving, because they spoke to the “universals” of organizing and the work. I was struck by simple things. Watching Cheryl Deutsch and Bilip …
Livelihoods vs. Modernity
Mumbai Around the table were our key leaders from the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), the huge traders organization that had been with us since the beginning of the India FDI Watch Campaign, the leader of the Congress of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in Mumbai, the head of the hawkers and the mathadi …