Seoul Korea has had an excellent set of labor legislation, providing good protections. They were too good perhaps in the view of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which made gutting some of them a condition for bailout loans during the financial crisis here. It turns out that part of the impetus behind my …
Category: Labor Organizing
Vladeck and Na Plans
Seoul The Sunday conversations that I really did have in and around the Y in Seoul were valuable enough in their own right. First, I finally connected with Liza Vladeck, whose name had been on everyone’s lips when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) first reached Moscow. She had seen my blog and reached out …
Rag Pickers Union
Delhi I had met Sashi Bhushan on my last trip to Delhi. He was a colleague of Dharmendra’s and had gone with us to the redevelopment area on the outskirts of town. While in the car we started visiting, and he told me he was organizing a union of sorts of rag pickers …