Pearl River One of the reasons that Trump’s “flood the zone” tactics are so effective is that keeping up with this surge of executive orders and chaos forces an inadvertent level of triage. We focus on the big bombers, while a lot of smaller and equally dangerous drones slip behind our lines. Take the …
Category: Labor
Migrant Workers in Taiwan – Critical, but Oppressed
Taipei The Organizers’ Forum delegation was on a deep dive to understand the situations faced by migrant workers in Taiwan with meetings early and late during one day with Jing Ru Wu and her colleagues at the Taiwan International Workers Association (TIWA) and Lennon Ying-Da Wang of Service the People Association (SPA), its …
Talking about Organizing Unions in the South
Chicago In the array of workshops, panels, and ballroom presentations there were some about organizing in the South, which has been the holy grail for the future of US unions ever since companies poured into the region to take advantage of cheap labor and abundant resources. Hearing what was on union activists’ minds made …