Philadelphia It was a lot of fun to be the guest speaker at the annual Labor Lawyers reception to support Philadelphia Jobs with Justice. It was a good, there were people, old friends and comrades came out of nowhere, and once we got to the problems of “majority unionism” as discussed in Citizen Wealth, and …
Category: Labor Organizing
Local Leaders Rule
Vancouver A phone call from Springfield, Massachusetts early in the morning and then a morning spent with more than 100 local leaders in the southeast region of British Columbia, who were activists and stewards in the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU), reminded me how transcending, essential, and transforming the development of great local leaders …
Workers Safe Haven
Mae Sot The morning had begun before dawn as I walked the downtown streets of Mae Sot in the company of hundreds of orange clad Buddhist monks of all ages as they padded silently in bare feet along the streets to find their sustenance from the alms of believers, some sitting ready to feed them …