Toronto Before Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went to York University to address Dr. Stephanie Ross’ class on Worker Organizations, we me with a friend for a pleasant hour who was a senior executive of one of the largest unions in Canada. We often had this dialogue about where labor stood and …
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Hospitality Unionization Brings up the Rear
New Orleans Well, Happy Valentine’s Day! Makes me think of millions of people going out to restaurants, lounges, movies, theaters, and wherever and toasting their sweeties, and then usually not leaving much of a tip later for the servers. Where’s the love? Wherever it might be, it’s not for unions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics …
Hospitality Wars Close to Settlement
New Orleans It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement. Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item …