Moscow Many of us were perhaps a little the worst for wear, but Kirill Buketov, an organizer for the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) had also flown in the previous night from Seoul, so no one was likely to notice. Kirill had begun his career on the shop floor in 1989 and was …
Category: Labor Organizing
Labor Day 2007
New Orleans Maybe this is a bit better Labor Day for American workers than the last several. We do have some things that have broken our way. The minimum wage has finally gone up from $5.15 to $5.85 and stands to keep rising for the next couple of years. Good news! A …
Bananeros Y Flora Trabajores
Quito There were widespread estimates of the size of the workforce in high dollar export agriculture of bananas and flowers in Ecuador, ranging from a million in each to a more realistic figure of 500,000 in each or perhaps, as one expert offered, 360,000 in bananas and a similar number in flowers. Either way 700,000 …