http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wadesworld%20nov82013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Rich Trumka of the AFL-CIO lambasted the Republican “principles” on immigration reform as a non-starter virtually creating a permanent apartheid of immigrants inside the country. There was a time when the vigorousness of labor’s opposition would have signaled the death of such a bill. This time …
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UAW Transplants Potential, not Worker Centers, Best News for Organized Labor
New Orleans Reports on the closing of the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention in Los Angeles were depressing to me. Sure, I liked hearing Rich Trumka almost endorse my long standing call for “majority unionism” by saying labor needed “to build a movement not for the 99 percent but of the 99 percent. Not just the 11 …