Krakow We talked to a number of union organizers and academic experts on unions and labor markets while the Organizers’ Forum was visiting Warsaw. The simple conclusion was that there is not much of it going on. There are two primary labor federations, one the famous thirty-five year old Solidarnosc, relatively speaking a shadow of …
Category: International
The Labor Leader’s Last Shout of the Swan Song
Warsaw Once the mess was out in the open and Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan spilled the beans on his Facebook page about all of the sharp elbowed, behind the scenes jostling that makes up 95% of all of labor’s internal politics, virtually any and all union members knew it was all over …
Here Comes the Pope!
Warsaw The Organizers’ Forum is assembling in Poland. There are Catholic churches everywhere, and they are huge, part of the legacy of Pope John Paul. The news everywhere though is focused on the first visit of Pope Francis to the United States and what that really might herald. Francis has thus far been a breath …