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 …
Category: Labor Organizing
Rock Still Falling
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 …
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 …