Toronto It was amazing to be with more than eighty ACORN leaders, members, organizers, friends, supporters, and people who wanted to just know more about the organization and its history at the Steelworkers union hall in Toronto at the special screening of “The Organizer” documentary. The hunger and passion for change and willingness to do …
Category: Labor Organizing
Some Lessons for Labor in Unite’s 100% Campaign
London The last several years the treat at the end of the trail has been lunch with an old friend and comrade somewhere in London’s Chinatown where we catch up on labor union developments and organizing around the world. Given developments in the USA where unions are contemplating losses of literally millions of members if …
West Virginia Teachers and English University Workers
Brighton One of the undercurrents of my long slough across Europe and the United Kingdom has been the close attention and excitement roused by the West Virginia teachers and their dramatic, and ultimately successful, strike. In Bulgaria, one of our number was from West Virginia and first called the plan to my attention as the …