President Obama spoke to the AFLCIO Executive Council (the equivalent of the TUC General Council) this week, and he gave a ringing endorsement of union membership, starting off by quoting his predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said:
“So FDR I think said—he was asked once what he thought about unions. He said, “If I was a worker [...]
Just a ‘heads-up’ on a Unions21 conference taking place tomorrow, Tuesday 17th February, at the NASUWT’s Greater London Regional office in EC1. The conference will be discussing the use of the internet and similar media in the successful Obama campaign last year and what lessons unions here could learn from it. TUC’s own web guru [...]
Paul Krugman, the winner of the Nobel prize for economics, says that the US needs the Employee Free Choice Act that US unions are campaigning for. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine (a journal of economic record, of course!) he says that the US economy needs unions just as much as workers do. Last time US [...]
It’s either a sign of a more diverse media, or just how bad things have got in the US under Bush, that the New York Times has published an editorial (not just a comment article) calling for more freedoms for trade unions to organise.
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 [...]
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