Adam Neiman Boston, Jan . 15 2009 The writer is the founder and chief executive of No Sweat Apparel, producer of union-made clothing and sneakers in the United States, Canada and the developing world.
Medusa at Union Pool, Wednesday, June 10 , 2009 sweat, hair, stopwatch.
Terrorized by flop sweat the first time he gave a union speech 30 years ago, he recalls that he was initially no prize as a third-generation union activist, either.
Employers are still free under the proposed Employee Free Choice Act to hold intimidating one-on-one "sweat" sessions to legally discourage workers from joining a union.
Incisive, uncondescending and quietly compassionate, Sweat explores how the decline of industry and the crippling of unions goads the manufacturing class into racist and anti-immigrant positions.
The NRL boss David Smith must be sweating bullets at his worst-case scenario: losing superstars Benji Marshall and Sonny Bill Williams to rugby union next season.
He added of union members who were at the Capitol today: "They're not sweating it at all.
Too much sweat, they say, has been expended on the biggest bailout in financial history for the project of monetary union to fall apart now.
