Arequipa, Peru: As an organizer, I can not resist asking, everywhere I go around the world, about the economics of social change. What defines membership in a social movement or labor organization? Are there dues? If so, how much do members pay? Regardless of what many might think, other organizers and leaders are always surprised someone …
Category: Labor Organizing
Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in Lafayette with Local 100 Leaders
Lafayette: An extra treat for our annual SEIU Local 100 Leadership Conference this year was a last minute addition and an unexpected surprise. One of our office staff approached me on the Friday before we left for Lafayette about how I would feel about some entertainment for the leadership meeting? Why not, I thought. She then …
Blue Moon
Lafayette: The SEIU Local 100 Annual Leadership Conference was going to be held this year in Lafayette, Louisiana. We had won an election for 300 Head Start workers employed by a private non-profit called SMILE in Lafayette at the beginning of this year and had just come to a tentative agreement on the contract. Additionally, we …