Chiang Mai The Organizers’ Forum delegation had travelled from Bangkok to Chaing Mai and almost immediately sat down with organizers from three different groups focused on support and assistance to Burmese refugees and displaced citizens. The organizers had been involved in the work from several to twenty years. In some cases the support was humanitarian, …
Category: Labor Organizing
Living Wages for Garbage Workers
Dallas A meeting of Local 100 leaders and stewards may be one of the only places in the country where you can hear a lively discussion break out over dinner on the merits and demerits of arm hoist back loading trucks versus side and front loaders and the relative dangers of a 96 gallon versus …
Thanking John Sweeney
Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree. I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer with …