New Orleans Unite is the largest union in the United Kingdom with almost 1.4 million members launched a brave and exciting experiment four years ago to organize the unorganized. In this case it was not the unorganized who were workers, but the unorganized in communities. They established Unite Community with minimal dues (50 pence or …
Category: Labor Organizing
More Boycotts? Why Not?
New Orleans Nick Jones was an organizer and boycott coordinator for the United Farm Workers from 1966 to 1976, and then spent another 30-odd years as a union organizer, largely with Service Employees locals around the Bay Area, finishing his career with the National Union of Healthcare Workers. His time with the UFW ended in …
Meth, Mailings, Tax Exemptions, and the National Right to Work Committee
New Orleans The National Right to Work Committee has long been the bane of the labor movement’s existence, as it campaigns from state to state, courthouse to courthouse, and, more recently in Kentucky, county to county, to make it as difficult as possible for union members to pay dues to their organizations. The Committee was …