Sheffield Visiting with a British union organizer in touch with colleagues in the United States, I was shocked, though perhaps I should not have been, when he told me he had been hearing of worst-case scenario meetings of labor strategists meeting after the election estimating that the American labor movement could lose 3 to 5 …
Category: Labor Organizing
Digital “Tools” for Organizing Protests and Building the Movements that Follow
New Orleans Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote an interesting op-ed in the Times, headlined, “Does a Protest’s Size Matter?” The answer is easy: of course it does! But, that’s not the point she wants to underline. The professor wants to underscore the fact that a protest about something is …
Does Former SEIU President Andy Stern Really Advocate Labor Law Waivers?
New Orleans I know Jay Youngdahl, as an old friend and comrade, dating back to his father, H-1B visa lawyer Chris Colavecchio, when he introduced us in the early 1970s. Our building on Main Street in Little Rock, and the home of KABF radio and ACORN for years, was once the old Youngdahl law offices. …