http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/All_that_we_are.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was an intriguing and in some ways unsettling piece in the New York Times recently about the growing power of Facebook and friends called “The Ads That Know Everything” by Burt Helm. The title of the piece in the online version lowered the “fright” …
Category: Labor Organizing
The Toil of an Organizer Seems A Lot The Same Even 100 Years Ago
New Orleans Matilda Rabinowitz was a little heralded organizer for the International Workers of the World over 100 years ago. She became an active Socialist while doing factory work in Bridgeport, Connecticut beginning at 14 years old, and migrated to the IWW, as many Socialists did, as they became more active and visible in …
Local 100 Puts Cowboys Owner Jones on Notice While Withdrawing NLRB Charge
New Orleans Local 100 United Labor Unions notified NLRB Region 16 that it was withdrawing the charge filed over two weeks ago over threats made by Dallas Cowboy’s owner, Jerry Jones, to “bench” his players of they protested during the national anthem. In a press release describing its action, Local 100 said the following about …