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Unions Stepping Up in Wisconsin, Egypt, and Around the World
Mexico City This evening I speak at the Workers’ University of Mexico (Universidad Obrera de Mexico) about my book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families. It will be hard not to...
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Collective Bargaining Under Attack
New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin. After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a...
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Are we Hearing the Death Knell for Unions?
New Orleans The backdrop to the great excitement and fight back in Wisconsin, Ohio, and India for the labor movement seems to be a very black curtain that some are trying to pull across the stage....
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The Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults
Worker Solidarity Movement New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial...
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Initiative Campaigns Could Save Unions and Obama in Ohio in 2012
New Orleans In a wild case of unintended consequences the current Republican attack on unions in New Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio could end up insuring the re-election of President Obama and...
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Republicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril
Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin. And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in Indiana that got some tongues wagging, and if not...
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Go Players! Beat Owners!
New Orleans Not surprisingly the NFL players and owners marched into the abyss yesterday in another high-profile fight over the value of collective bargaining, though in this case in order to hold on...
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Labor versus Business: From Economic Wars to Culture Wars?
New Orleans I wonder with the diminishing strength of unions whether we are about to finally move from front page economic wars to the back page culture wars so much enjoyed by the right. Not able to...
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Hard Times and Wild Kingdom
Nairobi water buffalo coming down to water The stories on the streets here and the headlines around the world are daunting. The law trimming back collective bargaining in Ohio seems even worse than...
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Republican Anti-worker Perversions in Wake of Wisconsin Anti-Union Laws
New Orleans A year ago new Governor Scott Walker led the Wisconsin legislature in a bitter, highly contentious and contested, battle to attack public employee unionization. The headlines a year...
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Coming into Wisconsin at Ground Zero of Class War in America
Recall effort in Wisconsin Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held...
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Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall
We Are Wisconsin Madison The life-and-death struggle in Wisconsin to turn back the radical and sweeping rightwing program of Governor Scott Walker being waged by progressive forces is entering...
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Duplicate Dues Enrollment Should be Standard Operating Procedure
UAW Billboard 1930s Detroit Little Rock Reading about the second battle of Wisconsin between labor and Governor Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues, who four years ago stripped public workers’...
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Wisconsin Midterm Aftermath
Madison After a grueling day as a weather warrior, I made it to Madison in time to talk with a diverse group pulled together by the University of Wisconsin – Havens Center. As always, the...
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Our Wisconsin Revolution is a Different Twist with a Great Future
Madison Frankly, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s successor organization, Our Revolution, has been confusing to me. In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, its maiden voyage seemed covered...
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Keeping the Issues Real in Milwaukee
Milwaukee In what will be a monthly set of sessions for the over a six-month period focusing on leadership development, organizer training, and organizational planning and development, we started...
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Lost in the Stacks
Madison It was the right thing to do. Make a plan to try and retain records from the ACORN family of organizations in some professionally maintained archives before in the shuffling from office to...
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Voter Purges Coming in Wisconsin and Georgia
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12172019.mp3 New Orleans A Georgia judge allowed a 300,000 voter purge to happen hours ago in that state. A lawsuit filed by Fair Vote...
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