Most of us are descended from immigrants, whether they are recent arrivals or long-time North Americans. The History Center at 401 East Martin Luther King, Jr. Street (aka State Street) has an interesting panel this Thursday, March 25, at 5:30 about our more recent immigrant neighbors. The Workers’ Center colleague Geovanny Trivino of the NYS […]
or, Why You Should Always Tip Your Pizza Driver from our trusty friend Eric Byrd, Community Union Organizer Sometime back in the second century BC, at the start of the Roman Empire, unscrupulous Roman business owners noticed that certain of their employees were receiving tips from their customers… and they didn’t like it. The business […]
Thanks to the Loyal Reader who expressed enjoyment over a February post about the AFL-CIO ‘Working Class Heroes’ film recommendations. I’m including more today. Feel free to send reviews of these films or to add suggestions about your favorite Working Class Heroes films. Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980, Michael Apted) Sissy Spacek won the 1982 Oscar […]
We’ve received a new book at the Workers’ Center, Lisa Dodson’s The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy. Dodson, now a sociology professor at Boston College, has been an obstetrical nurse, a union activist and the director of the Division of Women’s Health for the state of Massachusetts. When Dodson began her […]
Many thanks to the Ithaca Journal for their recent follow-up article about Amber Little and TJ Goehner, two of the former Cost Cutter stylists. If you haven’t read it, please take a moment: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100308/NEWS01/3080362/Former-salon-employees-turn-lemons-to-lemonade ——————————————————————————————- The Listening Project is something new that the Workers’ Center is working on. Our goal is to learn about the […]