New Orleans Enjoying lunch at the Praline Connection with an old friend, Rev. Jim Sessions from Knoxville (formerly Union Community Fund director, Highlander director, and still a voice for justice and reconciliation everywhere), he told me a story, that somehow I had missed that showed the power of the perfect storm when the we have …
Category: Labor Organizing
Labor Chaos
New Orleans Sensitive, internal memos and financial information are leaking like a sieve exposing vulnerabilities in some of our storied unions. This hurts workers and all of us. In labor we need some real leadership and something likea “Geneva convention” or “Marquis of Queensberry” rules for how to handle internal conflict within unions without eroding …
SEIU’s Good Obama Bet
New Orleans Recent press reports and a big story in the Wall Street Journal have been sniping at the huge $85M set of contributions that the Service Employees International Union made on the Obama campaign. On one hand they seem to be insinuating crass influence buying and on the other hand they are hinting at …