New Orleans Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Clinton was quoted in the Sunday New York Times arguing that the candidates should make a larger issue of the housing crises. We have to agree with that 100%! He makes the well-known point that 70% of the wealth of the middle-class voters are tied …
Category: Labor Organizing
End Notes 2007
Lisbon We are pushing this year to a close in fine fashion and full fury. The vote count in Kenya is proceeding somewhat calmly in a tight contest, we are watching closely for its impact on organizing. We are shocked by the situation in Pakistan and the assassination of former Prime Minister Bhutto in …
Book Report: Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds
Lisbon Part of my holiday reading has included Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy edited by Lowell Turner and Daniel B. Cornfield and published this year (2007) by ILR/Cornell University Press. The book was already worth my price of admission for introducing me to Sellers essay that included …