San Francisco It took a long time for me to acquire the New Yorker habit. It was colorless, East Coast, preppie affectation by gawd, and I was having nothing to do with it. Over time things changed. I was buying John McPhee books and loving them, and I could read his stuff there first. …
Category: Labor Organizing
Outsourcing Worker Power?
Shreveport The other day a small piece in The New York Times quoted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, in an intriguing — and controversial — way under the title — “outsourcing the picket line” from a piece that ran in The McKinsey Quarterly. On the plus side he was quoted as …
Trippin up in Los Angeles?
New Orleans It is a huge advantage to have been doing this work for a very long time. In many cases you find that you have out run your opponents and by dent of experience, discipline, and just showing up every day for more than 35 years, you just know a lot more people and …