Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Today in Labor History

December 12  --  SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

A U.S. immigration sweep of six Swift meat plants results in arrests of nearly 1,300 undocumented workers - 2006

(The New Urban Immigrant Workforce: Organizing Innovations is a ground-breaking look at immigrant labor organizing and mobilization that draws on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, historical documents, and new case studies. The writers provide real evidence of immigrants’ eagerness for collective action and organizing, and they argue that this desire to organize stems from the immigrants’ social isolation. With this argument, the book parts company with mainstream thinking that recommends building an array of social networks to aid in organizing efforts.)
 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Last year Jimmy Hoffa made $400,000 with benefits. Who pays him?

You do, that's who.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/12/12/jimmy-hoffas-personal-and-hypocritical-class-war-n1465288