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CSEA Local 1000 Hiring Statewide Organizer
JOB SUMMARY: The incumbent reports to the Deputy Director of Organizing and the Director of Organizing. Responsibilities include all aspects of organizing campaigns and building the union. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Performs all phases of organizing activities such as targeting, research, developing leads, progress assessment, recruitment, issue development, strategizing, escalating tactics, voter assessment, GOTV strategies ‐…
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Harsh Prison Sentences: A Labor Issue?
Is mass incarceration a labor issue? According to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the answer is a resounding “yes”. According to Dave Jamieson, writing in the Huffington Post, Trumka is prepared to give remarks on Friday “offering robust support” for California’s Porposition 47, a proposal that would downgrade non-violent crimes to misdemeanors, thereby rendering thousands of state and county prisoners…
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Stephanie Luce on the Fight for a Living Wage
This past week, Murphy Institute Professor Stephanie Luce gave a talk at the James Connolly Forum on the fight for a living wage and the $15 minimum campaign. Couldn’t make it person? Catch the talk here: [youtube=http://youtu.be/QfrjZ1ezkaI] Stephanie Luce is an Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute.
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Students Fight Back in Philadelphia
By Steve Brier In the latest ominous sign of the ramping up of the neoliberal agenda to undermine public funding for public institutions, the state-appointed Philadelphia School Reform Commission (PSRC), which has managerial control over the city’s public school system and its 130,000 students, on October 6th unilaterally cancelled the longstanding contract it had with…
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