INTRODUCTORY CONTEXT If we were insisting on honesty, we’d have to face a key fact about English usage rules, or the notion of ‘Correct Usage’ in general. Most people could give less than ‘a tinker’s damn,’ as it were, about…
Month: February 2014
Tearing Down the Walls
Global Trade & Local Oppression from the Coal Creek Wars to the ‘Debacle in Chattanooga’ With just a modicum of support, a much longer and more thorough examination of this vicious, bloody piece from Dixie’s past would be possible. That…
International Labor Groups & Publications
http://www.clc-ctc.ca/ Canadian Labor Congress has much to proffer labor learning and organizing South of the border. http://www.fairlabor.org/labor-standards Fair Labor Association fights for and seeks to insure proper definition and promulgation of decent standards in the world’s workplaces. http://www.uniglobalunion.org/about-us Global Union…
Who Lost Chattanooga? The UAW Failure at VW
By Steve Benton(At-Large Steering Committee member from Atlanta, Georgia) Many postmortems regarding the union organizing failure at the VW plant in Chattanooga have focused on the aggressive anti-union resistance that swarmed into town ahead of the election to undermine what…
Like Trees Standing by the Water…
Many folks with whom I’ve spoken over the past few days, in the parlance of the hills around here, have “been mad enough to eat iron and spit nails.” The loss of a shot at Union representation in Chattanooga—just over…
Writers Without Issues Have Nothing to Say
AN INTRODUCTORY POSTING Before beginning today’s blog proper, the first of a twice-monthly post entitled “A Writer Without Issues Has Nothing to Say,” I wanted to introduce myself and say a few words about process and approach. My name is…
Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time
AN INTRODUCTORY POSTING Before beginning today’s blog proper, the first of a twice-monthly post entitled “Blazing a Union Trail Through the Thickets of Time,” I wanted to introduce myself and say a few words about process and approach. My name…
Writers Without Issues Have Nothing to Say
If Copying Is Wrong, What’s a Copyright?
An Initial Brief None other than William Blackstone, storied British jurist and intellectual progenitor of much of the contemporary nexus of ownership and production, had a very astute insight. “There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages…
