May 7, 2022 New Orleans Labor Secretary Martin Walsh, also former Mayor of Boston and a union leader before his election and appointment to the cabinet, started his remarks in a refreshing Boston brogue with a laughing jab at the president of Georgetown University as he touted being a graduate of Holy Cross …
Category: Unions
John J. Sweeney’s Celebratory and Complicated Legacy
May 6, 2022 Washington John Sweeny was the head of the Service Employees in 1984, when the United Labor Unions, affiliated with SEIU. I met him then. I last saw him in 2009 at a packed, standing room only gathering at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall when he was given an honorary degree there, right …
Starbucks Real Anti-Union Strategy is Time
New Orleans In Starbucks case, the new boss is not the same as the old boss. The new boss is the old boss several times over. The Starbucks board brought back Howard Shultz, who became a billionaire as CEO and one of the founders of the chain. Part of his mission was reportedly …