Missoula Flying through Denver we picked up the papers on our way to our camping and fishing vacation off the grid in Montana. Depressing! Though well known for a while, reading the story of the AFL-CIO’s proposed sale of their National Labor College was a downer. Not only because of all of the waste but …
Category: Labor Organizing
Union Conundrum: Short Term Needs versus Long Term Success
New Orleans Eduardo Porter’s “Economic Scene” column in the New York Times is fast becoming a favorite read for me. He actually seems to care about people, including working and low income people. Probably not long for this world at the paper, but worth showing some love. In today’s column he looked at the deterioration …
Union Organizing Depressions in the Bay Area
San Francisco One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival. There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus on the full nature of …