Corporate Offensive: Continental Perspectives
A Panel Discussion of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America, 2nd edition, 2015, PM Press (U.S) and Fernwood (Canada). Richard Roman & Edur Velasco Arregui. Preface by Mel Watkins, Foreword by Steve Early
Tuesday April 28, 2015, 7–9pm
People’s Co-op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, President and General Secretary of the National Union of Mining Metal, Steel and Allied Workers Union of Mexico (SNTMMSRM), continues to lead his union from exile in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Collapse of Dignity, a book about corporate greed and miners’ struggles in Mexico.
Jim Sinclair was President of the BC Federation of Labour from 1999 to 2014 and has long been active in international solidarity work. He was the editor of Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade with Mexico (1992).
Richard Roman is co-author of Continental Crucible and many articles on workers, unions and the Mexican state.