Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree. I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer with …
Category: Employee Free Choice Act
So Long Card Check
New Orleans Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times today what most in the labor movement have come to expect for quite a while: card check is not going to emerge in any final labor law reform at this time. Card check, as many must know, is a procedure allowing for recognition of a union as …
Crawfishing on Employee Choice
New Orleans A full page ad ran in my local paper in New Orleans thanking Senator Mary Landrieu from SEIU. Must be reverse psychology, because Louisiana’s senior senator is just leaving workers twisting in the wind or worse. A friend in a sister local told me the other day that she had run into the …