Black Tuesday
I need to remind myself that I am not a professional journalist. I am, help me, a “blogger” with no cover and no paycheck. I need to write for an imagined audience that includes all my friends, comrades, neighbors, family and girlfriends (past, present and future) as well as all of my employers, past and prospective. I’d like to offer all of my opinions on Tuesday’s “restructuring” of the AFL-CIO that closed and merge departments and laid-off a third of the federation’s staff, but I’d like even more to work in the labor movement again. So, I’m just going to offer a few links. Jonathan Tasini has a lot of inside information of how the news went down at 16th Street. American Prospect has a good piece by Harold Myerson on the politics of the cuts. And, as always, the Unite To Win blog has all those anonymous staffers slugging […]