New Orleans – I’ve known Gene Bruskin for forty years or so. We date back to when he was loaned to Local 100 by the AFL-CIO from some training or development program employing him at the time to help us with a series of elections for parking lot workers in New Orleans. Over the decades …
Category: Anti-Racism
What’s Up with the Supreme Court?
New Orleans Eating breakfast in Santa Fe with a colleague recently, he brought up the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings into the qualifications of Judge Jackson to become the first black woman justice of the US Supreme Court. Jumping from town to town in New Mexico, I could honestly say, I wasn’t up …
Politicizing and Dehumanizing Skills
Marble Falls Talking to NYU Professor Natasha Iskander on Wade’s World and reading her new book, Does Skill Make Us Human? Migrant Workers in 21st Century Qatar and Beyond, forces us to confront the fact that we don’t think enough about skills. Employers, educators and politicians constantly promote more effort and programs to increase skills. We all talk about …