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 …
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Half-a-Loaf: The Hard Lessons of Elections
New Orleans As we peel more layers off the onion of the recent election, there’s more good news and more bad, but there are also refresher courses that remind us of lessons we’ve painfully won, but are forced into detention to review yet again. The hardest is often the tough lesson of elections: it is …
Walter Reuther is Alive, Well, and Leading an Auto Workers Union…in Korea!
New Orleans Yes, Walter Reuther, the great, visionary, charismatic, progressive, and disciplined labor leader of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the United States is alive and well and leading an auto workers union, but his name is Moon Yong-moon and his union is in Korea. Rather than representing workers at GM, Ford, and Chrysler, …