Baton Rouge Every year Local 100 has a Leadership School for our stewards, and this year we met at our union hall in Baton Rouge. More than 30 stewards came in filled with vim and vigor especially because of the recent election successes of the local in New Orleans and Dallas. The meeting started with …
Category: Labor Organizing
Co-Determination
Little Rock We all learn things in weird ways, I suppose. Yesterday there was an article planted in the Times attacking the corporate governance practices in Germany called “co-determination” which provide proportionate representation to labor on the boards of German companies. The law there seems to be that any company with more than 2000 workers …
Retaliation
New York City The Management Council of the ACORN family of organizations was having our spring meeting (though given the freezing temperatures maybe we should rename the season!) in New York as we usually do. For many years we have enjoyed the hospitality of Bob Masters and the CWA in their conference room, but as …