Pune There is a time, even in Mumbai, when the highway is not an obstacle to climb, and it turns out it is 7 AM in the morning. We sailed through the city. We were going to Pune for a meeting and coincidentally in setting up the session it turned out that the newly hired …
Category: Labor Organizing
ACORN Waste Pickers First Meeting
Delhi Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …
Tactical Disaster
New Orleans The dispute between the California Nurses Association, AFL-CIO, and the Service Employees International Union has bitter roots in California and unfortunately is spreading elsewhere in the country. Rose Ann DeMoro, the CNA chief has been an purist on many issues and with a broad brush has tried to paint SEIU as evil, …