Bill Fletcher on "Solidarity Divided"

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Busboys and Poets is hosting a conversation and book signing with longtime labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr. this Wednesday. Fletcher, cofounder of the Center for Labor Renewal, is a columnist and long-time activist who served as President of Trans Africa Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. His new book, “Solidarity Divided” - co-authored with Fernando Gapasin - is “An extraordinarily important and provocative reflection on the limitations of self-reform and reinvention within the American labor movement,” according to Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream. David R. Roediger, author of ”Working Toward Whiteness” calls it “An accessible and balanced exploration of recent efforts at community unionism, international solidarity, coalition with nonunion workers and empowerment of immigrants. Above all this is far and away the best argument for the importance of central labor unions that I have read.”