Weingarten Rights, the MLBPA, and the Houston Astros

Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans         We don’t have a major league baseball team in New Orleans.  Our closest team is a bit more than five hours away in Houston.  In the vast majority of the last several decades, we would drive over with the kids so that they could …

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A Top-ish Down Twist on a Bottom-up Campaign

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       At the Year End – Year Begin meeting of our principal North American organizers with ACORN and Local 100 United Labor Unions at NO-MAC at the Rathke Residence in New Orleans, we continued to push out the discussion on ways to expand our mass-based …

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Fight for $15 is Fight for 14 Euros in Europe

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam      In the second meeting of what we are now calling the “The Organizing Forum” or TOF, which I choose to pronounce as TOUGH, more than forty organizers from the Netherlands, France, Brussels, the United Kingdom, and the United States came together in Amsterdam to share experiences …

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