This is a blog being written while the Fox News Documentary cameras are hovering literally a couple of feet away. They are shooting B-roll and coming to the author event at Octavia Books tonight for Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families. When I polled friends, family, and readers of the Chief Organizer …
Category: Labor Organizing
So Long Card Check
New Orleans Steven Greenhouse reported in the Times today what most in the labor movement have come to expect for quite a while: card check is not going to emerge in any final labor law reform at this time. Card check, as many must know, is a procedure allowing for recognition of a union as …
Bangkok and Burma
Silver Springs It’s the time of year when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) begins to send out the call for the international dialogue to community and labor organizers who are interested in learning about the work of their counterparts in other countries and sharing their own experiences. This year the board has approved the international dialogue …