New Orleans May Day is Labor Day around the world, but the first Monday in September is labor’s day in North America. I was honored to be able to write the Labor Day post on the 10th anniversary of the Working Class Perspectives posts, so take a read there https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/labors-day-more-or-less/. It’s hard for most of us …
Category: Labor Organizing
New Zealand for All of Us: Maori, Equal Pay, and More – Part II
Don’t get me wrong, New Zealand is no perfect pearl. There’s a bounty of issues. Inequality is rising dramatically. Sprawl around Auckland is a huge issue. Environmental impacts on some of the island is devastating. There are interesting signs of progress though, and they are worth looking at closely. There are too many reminders of …
From Heaven to Hell and Back Again for Unions in New Zealand
Auckland Interviewing Mat Danaher of E tu, the largest private sector union in New Zealand with 50,000 members, on Wade’s World, I got a much better idea of the organizing climate and context confronting unions – and workers – in New Zealand. It’s quite a story of going from almost the best circumstances unions might …