Twenty years ago, some the largest unions in the United States broke away from the AFL-CIO claiming that it was not doing enough to organise workers. Everyone understood that the labour movement was rapidly shrinking,…
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You can read my article in full, here.
Australia: The article will appear this Friday, 7 October, on Workers Online. Finland: Here is my article, published by SAK, a Finnish national trade union center. Germany: For those of you who read German, here’s…
I’m leaving St. Louis today, but I’m not leaving this subject behind.
St. Louis, Missouri struck me as an odd place to choose to hold the founding convention of new labour movement in the United States. It is not actually that easy to get to and there…
There are really two ways of looking at the founding convention of the Change to Win Federation which took place in St. Louis on Tuesday. On the one hand, some journalists called it a “dog…
I just sat in on a question and answer session with a relaxed Andy Stern, president of the SEIU. Stern surrounded himself with purple-clad workers from Texas and fielded questions — including some tricky ones…
The BBC website — which makes an effort to cover the world — has no mention of this event. I’ve just written to them to complain. If your local news media are not covering this…
Several delegates have gotten up to speak about the struggle to unionize bus drivers in the US who are employed by a British-based company, First Group/First Student. Now they are showing a film with British…
Instead of eating lunch, the Leadership Council of the Change to Win coalition met for the first time. They added three people to their group, as the constitution provides. And they confirmed Edgar Romney and…