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Still beset by ethnic divisions 45 years after independence from Britain, the country’s labor movement is now offering ‘bold leadership,’ according to…
Bill Fletcher Jr
Bill Fletcher Jr (born 1954) has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.
“Long constituting a vast secret economy in New York,” as described by the New York Times, domestic workers won a striking victory…
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Pantheon Books, 2010). 324 pps. $27.95 hardcover …
We have found ourselves wondering why President Obama is being ‘red-baited’ by the political Right. Any reasonable person looking at the policies…
Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime labor and international activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum. He…
[The following speech was given on November 30, 2009 at the United Nations as part of the International Day of Solidarity with…
(1) At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What…
On Friday night I was completely engrossed in an interview conducted by Bill Moyers of Justice Richard Goldstone [Click here for the…
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BILL MOYERS: As those conservative protesters were leaving Washington, members of the country’s largest body of unions, the AFL-CIO were arriving in…