New Orleans I watched a brief interview for USA Today with Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, on the eve of their coming convention, as he argued that with the diminishing numbers, there were changes coming at the federation. The changes he talked about mainly were some kind of broader affiliation program that was enrolling …
Category: Labor Organizing
Workplace Occupations
Rock Creek The Kindle needed some juice and it was too early in the morning to get the converter humming, so I grabbed a book for a couple of hours that had been gathering dust at home, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis by Kari …
Understanding Chavez by Understanding Alinsky?
Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …