Posted on May 13, 2008 by paulgarver
Although I am nobody’s referee, I know a foul when I see one. Some time ago I called one on national SEIU’s disruption of the Labor Notes Conference. Now I’ve detected another one in one piece of UHW’s negative campaign against Andy Stern.
The violation consists of imbalanced and tendentious criticism of an agreement between SEIU [...]
Filed under: Global organizing, Low wage workers, Organizing, Uncategorized | Tagged: Aramark, Compass, employer agreements, neutrality agreements, SEIU, Sodexho, UHW, UNITE | No Comments »
Posted on May 10, 2008 by paulgarver
If you bought your Mom flowers for Mothers Day, chances are that they arrived on one of the 28 daily cargo flights into Miami from Colombia, where over 100,000 mainly female workers pick and process flowers for the U.S. market. They earn a minimal wage, are exposed to numerous toxins from pesticides and fungicides, [...]
Filed under: Fair Trade, Global organizing, Low wage workers, Organizing, Uncategorized | Tagged: Colombia, flowers, free trade agreement | No Comments »
Posted on May 9, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Rough economic times, changing demographics, the reinvention of work and workplaces, conflicting models for moving forward - both in the 1930s and the 2000s one result has been to split the labor movement.
AFL vs. CIO — AFL-CIO vs. Change to Win, how far do the parallels hold up?
Filed under: Conferences and Events, Labor History, Organizing | Tagged: AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Greg Denier, Labor History, Mel Dubofksy, New York Labor History Association, Priscalla Murolo, Robert Master | No Comments »
Posted on May 4, 2008 by dcampbell1
In May Day Letter To SEIU President Andy Stern, 100 Scholars, Artists and Writers Defend Right to “Principled Dissent” and Caution Against UHW Trusteeship
“We are writing to express our deep concern about SEIU’s threatened trusteeship over its third largest local, United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We believe that there must always be room within organized labor [...]
Filed under: Organizing | Tagged: Andy Stern, Sal Rosselli, SEIU, UHW | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 1, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
In his latest op-ed, the astute Harold Meyerson gives some advice to the Democrats about attracting white working class voters. The key is union. In the electoral long run, the Employee Free Choice Act and, this November, labor’s secret weapon–Working America.
Filed under: Organizing, Politics | Tagged: Employee Free Choice Act, Harold Meyerson, Working America | No Comments »
Posted on April 30, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Barbara Ehrenreich has been arguing that the left and the Democratic Party ought to be paying attention to the travails and protests of the truckers. She blogged today about the protest in DC.
Three truckers – two white and one black – speak about their dwindling livelihoods and the need for immediate government action to [...]
Filed under: Organizing, Strikes and work action | Tagged: Barbara Eihrenriech, truckers | No Comments »
Posted on April 22, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Struggling to make ends meet while working in the wealthiest corporate headquarters…
Concerned about the effect of corporate giant ARAMARK’s business practices in New York and in communities across the nation, non-union ARAMARK workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Citigroup cafeterias will be joined on April 22 by striking ARAMARK workers from Bank of New York and CBS [...]
Filed under: Low wage workers, Organizing, Strikes and work action | Tagged: Aramark, Facts on Amamark, Price WaterhouseCoopers, SEIU, Unite Here, Warburg Pincus | No Comments »
Posted on April 20, 2008 by paulgarver
by Paul Garver
Elsewhere on this page you will find a collective statement by the editors of TalkingUnion on the disruption at the recent Labor Notes Conference. But as a conference participant and contributor to that statement, I want to put it in perspective. For me, as for most of the thousand activists who were at [...]
Filed under: Conferences and Events, Global organizing, Organizing | Tagged: Labor Notes Conference, SEIU | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 15, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Demos has organized a interesting program on the global economy.
Thurs., April 17, 2008
Program from 12:00-2:00 pm
at Demos 220 Fifth Ave., 5th Floor
New York, NY [ directions]
NAFTA, CAFTA, the Columbia Free Trade Agreement, climate change and issues of the global economy are front and center in our Presidential debate. The laissez faire vision of the global [...]
Filed under: Fair Trade, Global organizing, Organizing | Tagged: Fred Azcarte, globalization, Katie Quan, Robert Kuttner, Sean Sweeney | No Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2008 by paulgarver
In late March, three major AFL-CIO unions (Communication Workers, Steel Workers, and Autoworkers) plus the IFTPE announced what they termed a “strategic alliance.” We regard the creation of such an alliance as a positive and significant step. It doesn’t seem to be the first move in a grandiose, but never realized, mega-merger scheme. Nor does [...]
Filed under: Organizing | Tagged: AFL-CIO, CWA, IFTPE, Industrial Union Department, UAW, USW, Washington Tech | 1 Comment »