For most union activists, Christmas is a welcome break - time, thanks to union campaigns over the decades, to spend on you and whatever you want to do. And unfortunately, some regimes around the world know that, and do terrible things over Christmas in the hope that trade unionists won’t be around to protest. This [...]
I’ve just come across an interesting article in the US radical journal In These Times, by Randy Shaw, called Origins of the Obama Machine. It recounts some of the campaign history of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in the 60s and 70s in California, and shows how their campaigning work presaged the Obama campaign’s real innovation [...]
“Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
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One of our keynote speakers at the Building Stronger Unions event - Stewart Acuff of the AFL-CIO - has written an interesting post for the ‘Huff Post’, one of the USA’s leading political blogs.
His last comment accurately sums up the thoughts of trade unionists around the world:
My mates and colleagues from all over the world made it [...]
