https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09182019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis We are so lucky to be able to come together and visit organizers, activists, leaders, and others who are trying to build organizations and navigate the challenges of empowering people in different countries. The Organizers’ Forum is close to completing our eighteenth journey, this time …
Category: Labor Organizing
Municipal Workers’ Union Knows How to Make a Deal
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis We had heard about Makrem Amairia, the head of the Municipal Workers Union branch of the larger, longstanding labor federation, UGTT, before we arrived at their building near the main boulevard running through the city of Tunis. He had been quoted while leading a march …
No Easy Roads for Unions in Tunisi
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cn09142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsTunis There are some difficult paradoxes involved in understanding the situation for labor unions, and for that matter, workers, in Tunisia. It is fair to say that the large labor federation UGTT is the only union anywhere in the world to get a slice of a Nobel …