New Orleans Meeting Joyce Miller was one of those happy coincidences. Her son, Josh, was working as a researcher for ACORN in Arkansas in the 1970’s, which gave her an excuse to visit the state and the rest of us an opportunity to meet her. The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) was something that mattered …
Category: Labor Organizing
Walter Reuther’s Lesson from Autoworkers to Nurses: Harder to Bargain is Worth the Lift!
Toronto The other day I was having lunch with a friend and colleague, Colin Heslop, who has been the skilled trades director for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union for the last decade, and worked with us to rehab a number of houses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It was a Sunday in Little Italy …
Change.org Zigzag Positions on Anti-Union Stand for Children and Students First
Cincinnati Speaking of Change.org and its chameleon way to seeming to be a progressive nonprofit, but actually operating a for profit, list aggregation and sales operation, no sooner do we look at the contradictions and deceptions in the way they present themselves than I notice an item in the Huffington Post by Ryan Grim with …