Working Life

    I’m here in the Windy City for the Change To Win convention. I’ve only got a few minutes before the convention goes back into session–and there is no wireless in the hall so it’s tough to get real-time stuff up (memo to unions: if you want reporters to get the message out, set up […]

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Note to reader: Natasha Winegar, Jonathan’s assistant, wrote this post. While Jonathan is away on vacation for the next week, I will be posting in his place. There has been quite a buzz on DailyKos the past few weeks about a new campaign to organize school bus workers. Progressive bloggers have often written about labor […]

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    This kind of slipped under the radar screen–but it’s a small sign that makes me skeptical that the Employee Free Choice Act will ever pass. In a small brief, The New York Times reported an Associated Press story that said: Democratic leaders in Congress said they had dropped their demand for union bargaining rights […]

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I’m troubled after the teleconference John Sweeney held yesterday with the press. It’s not that the whole affair lasted just 30 minutes (and we had to provide our own coffee, doughnuts and Scotch), which included John’s opening statement and, then, a rush to squeeze in questions before, poof, he had to run before anyone really […]

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Dear John: Since the AFL-CIO meeting in Vegas, I had a chance to look over your statement of March 2nd. I was thrilled to see you say that the AFL-CIO has a plan to INCREASE the labor movement’s investment in helping workers organize. Actually, you made this point twice in four paragraphs. But, why does […]

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