Which Way Forward For The Labor Movement

SPEAKERS: Seamus Whelan: Registered nurse for 15 years and active union member in the Massachusetts Nurses Association. Genevieve Morse: Shop Steward in the Classified Staff Union at UMass-Boston Geoff Carens: Union Rep, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers/HUCTW and the Industrial Workers of the World/IWW.

PUBLIC MEETING WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 – 7:00 PM @ THOMAS CRANE LIBRARY Main Meeting Room 40 Washington St. – Quincy Center 400 ft from Quincy Center T

Today in America, 50% of us are either in or near poverty while 19% of us are underemployed (we are either unemployed, only finding part-time work, and older workers who have been dropped from unemployment).

Candidate Obama in 2003 promised to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to end the mandatory practice of 90 days of forced anti-union meetings and intimidation by managers when we would try to form a union for better wages, working conditions, and benefits. But once he was elected he and his party never passed it.

Some of us who are in unions are dealing with union leaders who have lost touch with the members they’re supposed to represent.

How do we organize ourselves and co-workers to fight for a better standard of living? How do we reform our current union to make them more democratic to win better contracts? How do we stop the attacks on our public sector unions from Democratic and Republican governors like Scott Walker and Deval Patrick?

Please join us for this discussion.

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