Labor’s Fate after Wisconsin

“Labor’s Fate after Wisconsin,” featuring Heather and Paul Booth. Both are long-time political activists. Heather Booth founded the Midwest Academy, a training center for organizers, and she has worked closely with labor groups and the Democratic Party to register millions of new minority voters, advance the AFL-CIO health care agenda and the Dodd/Frank financial reform law, and defend Social Security and Medicare. Paul Booth, a leader of the antiwar movement in the 1960s, has for many years been the organizing director for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Workers. Based in Chicago, both Heather and Paul Booth were actively involved in the labor effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union agenda and then to recall the governor in the recent election.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

hm 6/22/12