Seoul, South Korea I’m as jaded and cynical as the next professional organizer, maybe more so, but I was impressed at the turnout at the Press Center on nothing more than the fact that some working organizer from the United States a “Wade Rathke” from ACORN — whatever that might be — was speaking on the simple …
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Surprises from Organizers in South Korea
Seoul, South Korea Na Hyowoo knew I would be interested in meeting some union organizers and representatives in order to get a better sense of the work here, so we went to the outskirts of downtown Seoul to meet with the Korean Federation of Private Service Workers’ Unions and their president, Kim, Hyung-Keun. I was feeling …
The Shadow of Indian Conglomerates
Delhi, India The papers were full of the new of the latest purchases of the giant Tata operations that had moved a protected state steel monopoly into a multi-national steel giant and the largest steel combine in the world. More titillating than their movements into steel in middle of the United Kingdom was the recent announced …