Staffordshire In organizing low-and-moderate income people both in the workplace and the community, one of the most vexing organizing problems has always been the Sisyphean dilemma, that no matter how many issues the organization might address, and even resolve, there were always scores of others, both personal and collective and often both, that were not being …
Category: Labor Organizing
Leaders and Stewards Demand Expanded Vision for Unions with a Long List of Details
Dallas One of the most amazing things about being an organizer, whether of community or labor-based organizations, remains the excitement of learning deeply what people really want – and expect – of their own organizations. For 33 years, Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has held an annual leadership conference. Many times it is largely …
Zero-hour Contracts, Compromise Agreements, and Payment by Outcomes
London One of the more frightening things about working around the world is stumbling over new ways that employers have found to screw workers. In Great Britain with the erosion of labor protections and shrinking of unions, they seem to have mastered the art in new and imaginative ways, dressed in high style with fancy …