Yangon Not surprisingly, the more people we visit, the more we peel the onion and come closer to understanding the full challenges for workers and their unions in organizing in Burma. Over the first three days of meetings for example when talking to labor sources the union density has fallen from 2% or roughly 250,000 members …
Category: Organizing
Higher Living Wages Somewhere, Maybe? $15 Per Hour, Unlikely!
Labor DayLittle Rock A couple of days ago there was an article in the Times that examined the call by some fast food workers through their publicity strike for $15 per hour as their minimum wage. The reporters wrote of experts and economists being “flown to Las Vegas” for urgent strategy sessions on how any …
Changes in the Passing of Old and New: KABF, CROP, ANEW, and More
Little Rock Landed from Baltimore in time to go spend several hours at White Water Tavern celebrating the 29th Anniversary birthday party for KABF there with some great music including our own Back Roads star DJ, Amy Garland, who opened the affair as well as Bryan Frazier, our assistant manager’s own band ripping it up. …