Attacking Alexi November 22, 2008 New Orleans One of the most interesting and exciting people that our delegation with the Organizers’ Forum met when we traveled to Russia in 2007 was a rank-and-file union steward at the Ford plant in St. Petersburg named Alexei Etmanov, who after leading a wildcat strike had become a …
Category: Labor Organizing
Changing of Wal-Mart Guard
Changing of Wal-Mart Guard November 21, 2008 New Orleans News hit the ticker that Lee Scott, the CEO and Chair of Wal-Mart will soon be just the Chairman of the Wal-Mart Executive Committee and will be replaced by Mike Duke as president and CEO. This may be another part of the public relations and …
Sustainable Canada
Sustainable Canada November 15, 2008 Vancouver Judy Duncan, national head organizer for ACORN Canada, and I visited with two very different, but fascinating groups yesterday, that might be good partners in the future for our work in Canada. One was called Toxic Free Canada, formerly the Labour Environmental Alliance, whom I had met several …