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 …
Category: Labor Organizing
Joyce Miller: First Lady of Labor
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 …
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 …