A reader sent in this bulletin from Workday Minnesota (thanks–readers alerts always welcome!). Be interesting to see if other such formations pop up either before or after the Change To Win Coalition convention, which takes place Sept. 27th in St. Louis. Also, wonder how these coalitions will work with the CLCs and State Feds and […]
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Wake Up, Press: Who is O.V. Delle-Femine?
Posted on 31 August 2005.
I’m really perplexed, though not entirely surprised, at the press coverage of the Northwest strike–on many levels. The main one that I find fascinating is the failure to probe deeply into the motivations and background of O.V. Delle-Femine. Today, for example, we get The New York Times story of the labor leader going out to […]
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Cuts At 16th Street
Posted on 30 August 2005.
It’s not been a quiet August over at 16th Street. Somehow, somewhere, the officers and their top staff are going to have to find upwards of $25 million in cuts out of the budget (which assumes $126 million in income in 2006-2006) to make up for the disaffiliations of the UFCW, Teamsters and SEIU. And […]
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And Over in the Lehigh Valley
Posted on 29 August 2005.
So, yes, the wedding was lovely up here in the mountains—but too much to eat and drink. And, now, from the beautiful mountains over to the Lehigh Valley… To which I have my own special connection, having hauled my sorry ass there during the election to knock on doors for Kerry (okay, I can hear […]
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Northwest Strike: More Grist
Posted on 26 August 2005.
[PUBLICATION ALERT: I’m at a wedding this weekend (pretty sure it’s not mine) so may not post but maybe will…you’ll live. But, if i’m not back here ’til Monday, by all means, keep debating the current hot topics] Here are couple of more things that are worth thinking about. First, I meant to say something […]
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A Failed Coup
Posted on 26 August 2005.
The post-AFl-CIO convention political skirmishing continues–except this time it happened on the international stage…not a good thing. This week, an important meeting of Union Network International (UNI) has been taking place in Chicago; UNI is a global network of about 900 service sector unions in 150 countries (wow, are there that many countries?). I’ll report […]
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Andy Stern On Solidarity Charters
Posted on 20 August 2005.
Andy Stern has sent a letter to SEIU locals reacting to the recent Solidarity Charters proposal from the AFL-CIO. Here it ’tis: August 17, 2005 TO: All Local Unions FR: Andy SternRE: Labor Unity at Local and State Level and in Constituency Groups The seven major unions with 6 million members that formed the Change […]
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What Road For the CLCs?
Posted on 18 August 2005.
It’s the classic question: local versus national; grassroots versus leadership…I’ve always been a man in the middle on the questions…you need both…neither is the answer on its own. And so the question of what will happen with the Central Labor Councils and State Federations has generated a lot of buzz and heat across the nation […]
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