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Brandworkers Seeks Development Director (Queens, NY)
The Organization Brandworkers is the first worker center led by the factory workers behind the soaring local food industry. Brandworkers members, mostly immigrant workers of color, are developing a new and innovative form of workplace association to achieve dignified jobs and a just local food system. Through Brandworkers’ unique leadership development path and member-led campaigns,…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Dec. 12th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. As all our newsfeeds continue to be filled with an increasingly nightmarish list of Trump cabinet appointments, we wanted to…
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Continuing the Discussion: Puerto Rico & PROMESA
Last Friday, together with the New York City Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, we gathered with Jose La Luz, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Nelson Denis to discuss H.R. 5278, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), looking at the history of Puerto Rico’s economic crisis and the impact of PROMESA…
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