New Orleans Talking with Peter Olney, a friend as well as a veteran labor organizer and former organizing director of the west coast based International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) where he retired in recent years, on Wade’s World was an important reminder of huge lessons we had both learned the hard way, but …
Category: Organizing
Tax Subsidy Opposition and Community Benefits are Battling in California
San Francisco The Inland Empire is largely Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in southern California east of Los Angeles. Warehouses and distribution centers are the kings of this empire, workers and communities are too often the serfs and poor villagers. In the last decade since the Great Recession new work in this section brought in …
Why is it so Hard to Talk about Organizational Structure?
Milwaukee Amani United, like a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon, is an embryonic organization attempting to emerge from its status as a project of a larger organization into a membership, resident-led organization that can spread its own wings and fly. On this point everyone agrees, including the leadership core of Amani United and …