Ankara Not easy figuring out the way unions are put together in Turkey, but after several meetings, it seems possible to sketch out the basic process. We talked an organizer for the printing and packaging union at some length, then met with the executive committee for a unionized and recently formed cooperative printing operations, …
Category: Organizer Training
Government versus the State?
Ankara Yildirim Koc, a veteran of 30 years in the labor movement, 3 years in a Turkish prison after the ’80 coup for his trouble, and currently an economist, writer, and teacher as well, opened our first Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) session with a thorough view of the history of labor over the last 100 years. His …
What Were They Thinking?
Athens Reading the reams of material prepared by Barbara Bowen, the Organizers’ Forum coordinator, and book after book to prepare to lead our delegation of twenty from the Organizers’ Forum in Turkey, one is reminded of aberrations of global policy that are so extreme that one can not imagine what in the world “the powers …