No Easy Roads for Unions in Tunisi

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cn09142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis    There are some difficult paradoxes involved in understanding the situation for labor unions, and for that matter, workers, in Tunisia.  It is fair to say that the large labor federation UGTT is the only union anywhere in the world to get a slice of a Nobel …

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A Constitution That Matters to People in Tunisia

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09132019..mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis     The Organizer’s Forum delegation, coming from Canada, the United States, Italy, France, Kenya, and Cameroon, began the morning, appropriately, with a briefing on the developments in Tunisia since the Arab Spring.  A large Organizers’ Forum delegation had visited Egypt within the first year of the …

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Different Crowd, Different Questions about Organizing

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsDusseldorf       On a quick turnaround, “The Organizer” documentary had been translated into Dutch for the showing in Amsterdam.  Meeting at a cultural center that was walkable from near the city center with meeting spaces, a hip bar, and an art cinema, there were more than forty …

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