Yesterday in one of the Chavez threads was this excellent comment that I think is both spot on and deserves additional commentary. I agree that this is a serious issue and it is why I wrote Organizing America. I might as well quote from it...
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In my new book, Organizing America, one point I make is that everyone is flawed and we have to work with what we have. One chapter is on Daniel Berrigan,.
As I think is probably pretty clear by now, I am not a fan of a lot of how the modern liberal-left operates. There is the performative nature of social.
For our latest podcast, we had the privilege of talking to Marc Doussard at the University of Illinois and Greg Schrock of Portland State University about their new book Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities. As urban planning...
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) I know nothing.
Coachella, CA: 1969. United Farm Workers Coachella March, Spring 1969. UFW leader, Dolores Huerta, organizing marchers on 2nd day of March Coachella. © 1976 George Ballis/Take Stock / The Image.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) The South has been the bane of American labor organizing forever. The prime reason that American unions are...
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento,.
I have basically given up on believing that organized labor as it currently exists can rebuild the labor movement. I don't think it can and I don't think most of.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson). Unions have polled pretty high among the electorate for awhile, but have surged recently. At the same time, there have been a number of high-profile union campaigns, most notably at Amazon and Starbucks. What does it mean? From Starbucks to Amazon to...
Deep dives on the success or failure of individual labor unions does not a robust comment section make. But this New Labor Forum piece on the successes of SEIU 32BJ.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) As I've stated.