Friday, December 21, 2012

The Nation, December 20, 2012, Thursday

The Nation

December 20, 2012, Thursday

The Nation (full article)

The Great Walmart Walkout

Kate Bronfenbrenner, who directs labor education and research at Cornell University, says the difference between the current campaign and the previous one is stark: “One is an organizing campaign, and the other was a negative PR campaign.” Century Foundation fellow Amy Dean, former president of California’s South Bay Labor Council, calls the current effort “an outgrowth of the learning that the UFCW has done” based on “what hasn’t worked in the past.”