Managua The Organizer’s Forum in Nicaragua will start with a bang on its first full day with a meeting with the head of the informal workers’ union followed by a visit with a representative of the Nicaraguan cooperative movement. Waking up early it was still sprinkling after more than a dozen hours of intermittently hard …
Category: Labor Organizing
Mobilizing Home Care Workers for Higher Wages
New Orleans Just maybe the publicity campaigns of the $15 per hour efforts by fast food and other workers are about to get serious. Steven Greenhouse in the Times reported that SEIU is claiming that “thousands” of the several hundred thousand home health care workers represented by the union are preparing to join upcoming actions and …
Great Union Organizing Songs for Labor Day
New Orleans There used to be a bumper sticker saying “Unions: The People Who Brought You Vacation.” Unions definitely brought us all Labor Day. There were years of giant parades, now largely in the United States something for San Francisco, Chicago, and maybe New York City, while the rest of the world celebrates May Day …