New Orleans Catching up on back issues of the New Yorker from my time off-the-grid, I stumbled onto a great piece by Dr. Atul Gawande on “Big Med.” Believe it or not, he shrewdly argues that huge service industry operations, like the Cheesecake Factory of all places, might just be the model for a different …
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Union Organizing Depressions in the Bay Area
San Francisco One conversation after another with union organizers, organizing directors, and veteran labor activists in the Bay Area over a 24-hour period was enough to trigger a profound fog of depression over any hopes for labors near term revival. There were a long list of symptoms with no consensus on the full nature of …
Walter Reuther’s Lesson from Autoworkers to Nurses: Harder to Bargain is Worth the Lift!
Toronto The other day I was having lunch with a friend and colleague, Colin Heslop, who has been the skilled trades director for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union for the last decade, and worked with us to rehab a number of houses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It was a Sunday in Little Italy …