New Orleans Over recent weeks there has been a spit fight involving the controversial in-home rental app, Airbnb, and various labor unions, including the frequently controversial Service Employees International Union and its even more controversial former president, Andy Stern, and the now much less widely known hotel workers union, Unite HERE, and a bunch of …
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Is NUHW Homeless in the House of Labor Again?
New Orleans It’s easy to lose touch when I’ve been on the road and out of the country too much, but sadly sometimes it’s just deja vu all over again. For years one of the hot buttons in the labor movement was the so-called tragic civil war in California within the ranks of healthcare unions …
Free Advice for Organizing McDonalds’ Workers
New Orleans There was SEIU’s organizing director Scott Courtney, friend and comrade, in a picture in The New York Times, rallying with Brazilian unions before preparing to testify on the evils of McDonalds’ franchisees in Brazil to their government. Even more surprisingly, he was quoted in the Times essentially saying he was throwing everything against …