New Orleans E-mail notices over night were more interesting than usual. Staff in India welcomed newcomers on a different time zone. In St. Louis we finally were getting some “pushback” traction in the Post-Dispatch on the voter suppression campaign being run against us. Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, sent me the final copy of …
Category: Labor Organizing
Labor’s Cutting Edge?
Little Rock For the 19th time leaders and staff of SEIU Local 100 (www.seiu100.org) headquartered in New Orleans but with organizers also in Arkansas and Texas and SEIU Local 880 based in Chicago but now with members in every nook and cranny of Illinois and expanding operations in Indiana and soon Kansas, came together in …
Irbid and the Textile Workers
Amman Rich Hall and Shira Qatarneh from the Jordan Solidarity Center allowed me to ride along with them as they went up to Irbid to visit with their local staff member working with the Jordan Textile Workers and assisting in organizing in the QIZ — which is the local handle for the special industrial zone …