New Orleans The annual figures on labor’s decline were released recently, and the news was uniformly bad. Union membership fell by 326,000 workers to 15.4 million bringing the overall “density” to 12% from 12.5% in 2005. Private sector unionization continues to fall precipitously. We are now down to 7.4% matching the lowest numbers since 100 …
Category: Labor Organizing
Flavor of the Forum
Nairobi The daily publication of the WSF said they had 50,000 registrations, but who knows where they were. Virtually no one walking and talking around the event thought there was half of that and many feared that 10,000 might be the best that were showing at any one time. Money was the issue here, and …
Fair Play Campaign in 2010
Nairobi I spent some time with the labor folks, who were fairly well organized and much better represented than usual at these events. No small reason may have been the clear leadership of the activities in the ‘Decent Work’ tent by the French CCT delegates and several of the global union groups. They were kicking …