The initial idea for the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Taxi Worker Organizing Project came about in 2006 when leaders from its partnering organization, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), urged AFSC to publically respond to the violent murder of cabdriver, Haroon Paryani. The Council has functioned as an advocacy group for […]
By Year: 2009
Evidence of “Class Anxiety” in the Chicago Tribune Coverage of Organized Labor: A Quantitative Study from 1991 to 2001
Over the past three decades organized labor has grown decidedly more troubled about the quality of coverage it receives from daily commercial newspapers. From an earlier Twentieth Century period when seasoned and grizzled newspaper reporters dedicated their investigative and journalistic careers writing about unions, to the near contemporary disappearance of the newspaper “labor beat,” labor […]
Driven Into Poverty: A Comprehensive Study of the Chicago Taxicab Industry (Report II: Violence)
The initial idea for the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Taxi Worker Organizing Project came about in 2006 when leaders from its partnering organization, the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), urged AFSC to publically respond to the violent murder of cabdriver, Haroon Paryani. The Council has functioned as an advocacy group for […]
Majority Authorizations and Union Organizing in the Public Sector: A Four-State Perspective
In the spring of 2009, labor relations faculty affiliated with four major university-based labor education programs collaborated on a study of their respective state laws mandating a majority authorization process for organizing employees in the public sector. The project was inspired by the national debate surrounding the proposed federal Employee Free Choice Act. Conventional reporting […]