Just the two of us
Last month, I attended the founding convention in St. Louis of the Change to Win federation — the alliance of unions which have broken away from the AFL-CIO. I wrote at length about the convention…
Australia’s Workers Online: Coverage of Change to Win
You can read my article in full, here.
My other published articles on the Change to Win founding convention
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…
Moving on
I’m leaving St. Louis today, but I’m not leaving this subject behind.
New union federation born in the USA
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…
A new dawn for American workers?
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…
Q & A with Andy Stern
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…
Is your local newspaper or TV station covering this?
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…
Transatlantic solidarity
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…
First woman elected to head a national union federation in US labour history
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…