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Craft at the Crossroads: The Future of the Building Trades

  Craft at the Crossroads: The Future of the Building Trades       by Independent Labor Club of NYC 414 Broadway New York, NY Saturday, October 17  •  3 PM - 6 PM We’d like to examine what ways individuals within construction might contribute to the task of building a vital and inclusive labor movement. What are the major impediments to unionization in the field? What do politicians promise and what can they actually deliver? Has the craft union form outlived its usefulness? How can we imagine overcoming it? The goal of this assembly isn’t just education, it’s also outreach to an essential sector of the working class usually ignored by the left. RSVP at our Eventbrite page . Overview Prospects for Amalgamation A panel featuring: Gregory Butler, International Union of Operating Engineers Together with members of Caucus of Rank-and-file Electrical Workers (CREW) Transport Workers' Union (TWU) Local 100 Carpenters Rank-And-File Together (CRAFT)    ...
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We'll let you know when to come back - First hand account of Kermit Johnson, rank and file chairman for the strike committee during the Flint sit down strike of 1936-37

  We'll let you know when to come back -  First hand account of Kermit Johnson, rank and file chairman for the strike committee during the Flint sit down strike of 1936-37 We'll let you know when to come back - Kermit Johnson | libcom.org
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