Los Angeles A couple of years ago I spent a fascinating period over almost a year working with Casa de Maryland. They began as a collection of workers’ centers and have become the largest immigration rights statewide organization in the country with huge victories to their credit in winning drivers’ licenses and a state DREAM …
Category: Labor Organizing
Brits and Texans Agree – Attack Unions Where it Hurts – Dues Collection
New Orleans Conservatives of all stripes and nationalities seem to have settled on a killer app for delivering a death blow to unions: block the dues collection mechanism! Short memories will recall that earlier this year there were fierce legislative battles in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere whose sole objective was to eliminate the ability …
Is NUHW Homeless in the House of Labor Again?
New Orleans It’s easy to lose touch when I’ve been on the road and out of the country too much, but sadly sometimes it’s just deja vu all over again. For years one of the hot buttons in the labor movement was the so-called tragic civil war in California within the ranks of healthcare unions …