Little Rock Visiting with friends and comrades in Little Rock, it wasn’t long before the discussion went to the obvious: how could there be meaningful civic engagement of low-and-moderate income families in the 2012 elections without a huge voter registration effort among the poor? There are still open wounds from too many sources that …
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Are we Hearing the Death Knell for Unions?
New Orleans The backdrop to the great excitement and fight back in Wisconsin, Ohio, and India for the labor movement seems to be a very black curtain that some are trying to pull across the stage. The evidence seems everywhere. Steven Greenhouse, one of the last labor reporters, sounded the death knell in the Times …
Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World
Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to make the point about unions, even weakened and beleaguered, and the vital role they are playing around the world in standing up …