Featured on this tape are excerpts from the National Labor Teach-In held in Washington, D.C., April 24-25th, 1998. Sponsored by Scholars, Artists and Writers for Social Justice (SAWSJ), this convocation brought together scholars, students, labor activists and educators to advocate, debate and celebrate the right of workers to organize.
Selections from the program include:
John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO on the degradation of workers in the "Nike economy" and how workers have no rights in the workplace without unions.
Julian Bond, Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors on the maldistribution of wealth in the economy, and the need for workers to organize and form coalitions between labor and civil rights organiations for social change.
Betty Dumas, an Avondale Shipyard Worker from New Orleans tells her story of being fired and then arrested for organizing.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Projessor at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations tells of the lawsuit filed against her by Beverley Nursing Homes as a result of her Congressional testimony about their unfair labor practices.
Richard Bersinger, Director of Organizing, AFL-CIO.
Elaine Bernard, Director of Harvard's Trade Union Studies Program on campus based protests over sweatshops here and abroad.
Ken Paff, Director of Teamsters for a Democratic Union talks about the history of organizing for democreacy in the Teamster Union and the bid for the Teamster Presidency by James Hoffa, Jr.