I sincerely hope that moving forward into a new era of Organized Labor and meeting the challenges we all face, we get back to the basics of focusing on the issues that directly impact us on the job. I cannot remember the last time I heard a labor leader use the following phrase: “An injury…
By Annie Karni – June 30, 2015 Hillary Clinton will attend an informal, intimate get-together for national and international labor leaders at campaign chairman John Podesta’s Washington, D.C., home on July 14, sources told POLITICO. The event, which takes place amid lingering concerns in the labor community over Clinton’s stance on trade, is scheduled for…
By now, anyone who’s paid attention to what has optimistically been called the “American labor movement” is aware that organized labor is in critical need of resuscitation and revitalization, if not downright reinvention. Despite its storied history — and it being the only friend that working men and women have ever had (note the undeniable…
