Milan In Europe there is increasing interest – and concern – over what is called the “uberization” of the economy, named after the ubiquitous and controversial US-based, but globally operating, Uber ride-sharing application. A French parliamentarian used the expression in a communication in recent days. Talking to a union organizer in the Netherlands, he …
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Not the Meeting, but the Follow-up That Matters Most
Milan There’s an old adage in organizing, that it’s not as much what happens in the meeting that counts, it’s what happens after the meeting that matters. Said another way, it’s all in the mop-up and the follow-up. If there were problems in the meeting, it’s how those problems can be solved or sanded …
Climate and Politics Take Center Stage in Organizers’ Debates
St. Etienne As the organizers shook of the aftermath of fellowship-and-solidarity time that had gone on until the wee hours and included robust singing with new verses to all ACORN songs, they hunkered into the discussions of how ACORN was addressing both climate change and politics. There were two approaches that organizers argued on raising …