The Tragedy of the UAW:  When Boss Culture Replaces Member Culture

ACORN Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPonce, Puerto Rico     At the end of every year we are inundated with the best of this and the top ten of that in music, movies, books, sports, tech, politics, and, well, I guess, almost everywhere.  Rarely is there a list of the worst events of the …

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Warehouse and Distribution Work, Tough Times at the Choke Points

Labor Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12222019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        In the modern economy, warehouse, distribution, and logistical work has become critical for both big box stores, e-commerce, and transportation systems moving goods between all of these nodes and customers.  Some 1.2 million workers are directly employed in this sector now according to the …

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Google Decides to “Do Evil” to its Workers

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11212019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Remember back in the old days, which might have only been a few years ago, but certainly seems so twentieth century now, when it seemed OK that Google was the go-to search engine for most everyone, the mail service for billions, map reader for …

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