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What Joe Hill Can Still Teach The World 100 Years After His Death
Posted On: Nov 20, 2015
Nov. 20, 2015 | ORGANIZING |  huffingtonpost.com  If legendary labor activist Joe Hill were alive today – and some contend that he is – he would have plenty to say about the state of the American worker. And the country, if it listened, would have plenty to learn.… Hill, who first came to prominence as an organizer in San Pedro, CA - the same place where today's port truck drivers toil in sweatshops on wheels - might well be taken aback by how little things have changed in the last century. In his day, he helped instigate a strike among San Pedro's badly exploited immigrant dock workers in his role as a leader of the International Workers of the World union… Full story here.
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