Toronto: It was a relief to walk out of the airport into the night air of Toronto on a late July evening after record breaking heat waves in Phoenix, Chicago, and everywhere we turned and find a cool breeze coming off the lake into Toronto and to suck in the air without a straw for the …
Category: Labor Organizing
Solidarity for Never!
Chicago: With 24 hours warning that four of the largest unions in the federation — the Service Employees, the Teamsters, the Food and Commercial Workers, and UNITE — HERE! — were going to boycott and not be seated the first day, the convention hall did not need to look as thin and empty. Only ninety (90) …
Ending the Manual Rickshaws
Kolkata: There used to be a t-shirt some years ago that was popular among unionists. In big block letters it read, “Union Rights are Human Rights.” Straight forward, simple and to the point, but it was dramatic in its own way. And, true! The slogan came to mind as I listened to INTUC’s Ramen Pandey recently …