Union Members From Tampa Bay Among Workers From Across the Globe at Labor Notes Conference

No Illusions and No Retreat for Union Militants at Labor Notes

Labor Notes’ biennial conference used to be the sort of gathering where veteran attendees could recognize many of the others in attendance. Barry Eidlin, a labor sociologist at McGill University who first attended Labor Notes in 1998, remembers a conference that felt very different. “I think they broke a thousand, and that was crazy,” he told me. “I remember the Labor Notes staff just being gobsmacked by that attendance.”Back then, the conferenc…

Union members from Tampa Bay among workers from across the globe at Labor Notes conference

More than 4,500 union organizers, union members, and non-union workers across virtually every sector of employment imaginable packed into a Hyatt Regency hotel in Chicago last weekend for a conference to strategize around the concept of putting the “movement” back in the labor movement. Attendees of the three-day biennial conference, hosted by the nonprofit Labor […] The post Union members from Tampa Bay among workers from across the globe at La…