Shreveport In looking at the results on the minimum wage ballot vote, particularly in New Jersey, President Obama spoke out again about his support for a minimum wage increase federally from the current $7.25 in a series of steps to $10.10 per hour. He wasn’t the only one speaking out on the need to increase …
Category: Organizing
Organizing Strategy Based on Solidarity and Power
Houston Thinking about various strategies to rebuild the labor movement is a painful pastime for many organizers, but talking to Peter Olney, the organizing director for the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union, the fabled 60,000 West Coast dockworkers’ powerhouse, on my weekly radio show recently was a good primer on the basics for holding your …
Meeting with the National League of Democracy
Yangon We had gotten lucky. We had a meeting scheduled with the head of the Labor Committee for the National League of Democracy, which is of course the party led by Nobel Laureate and global symbol of democratic struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi, and we met the Labor chief but our real meeting was with …