http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wadesworldjan30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Maybe it’s because it’s the season? Not winter, but the season in the sense that “for every time there is a season,” as the psalm records. In this season, thinking about friends, comrades over decades of mutual struggle por la causa, and family who suddenly …
Category: Organizing
On-Demand Economy, “Utter Nonsense,” and Unequal Negotiation
New Orleans When we affiliated with SEIU initially in 1984, the one condition imposed on our local union in New Orleans was that we not organize the city police. They had had a bad experience with a group they had tried to affiliate then had gone rouge and struck to hold Mardi Gras hostage. No …
The Tough Process of Organizational Change
Grenoble Over the last week from Birmingham to Edinburgh to London and now in Grenoble, it’s amazing how often conversations and questions focus as much on organizational change as organizing programs and prospects. Talking to Martin Smith, the organizing director for the GMB in London, he made the point as clearly as anyone saying that …