Elly Leary
Biographic Data
| ID | 5580042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elly Leary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elly |
| FAMILY NAME | Leary |
| SIGNATURE | LEARY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | General Motors (India) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interview with Bill Gallegos
As we veteran activists of the 1960s and early '70s enter our años del retiro , it is time for reflection, summation, and most importantly sharing what we have learned with those reaching to grab the baton. Many of us, now grandparents, are getting questions from our grandkids and kids about our lives in the "golden age" of U.S. social movements. ... Bill Gallegos has been an activist since the 1960s, when he became involved in Crusade for Justic…
A Most Reliable Ally
Martin Luther King, Jr., edited with introductions by Michael K. Honey, All Labor Has Dignity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011), 240 pages, $17.00, paperback.Many Americans who have failed to look deeply into the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. hold false assumptions about him. One is that he was a moderate solely focused on achieving civil rights for American Negroes (his terminology), and that he had a dream about a country where, as he said in Au…
Labor Revolts in the 1970s
Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, and Cal Winslow, editors, Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and the Revolt from Below During the Long Seventies (New York: Verso, 2010), 472 pages, $29.95, paperback.Rebel Rank and File is a collection of articles that surveys the building, heydey, and decline of rank and file workers' movement in the fields, mines, auto plants, schools, trucking and phone companies in the late 1960s through the 1970s. What makes…
Gramsci's Grandchild
Michael D. Yates, In and Out of the Working Class (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009), 217 pages, $19.95, paperback.Okay. Let's get the disclaimers out of the way right now. I am a longtime fan of Mike Yates. A big fan. I have used his materials with community and labor activists, made some contributions to a few of his works, and answered his call to write for Monthly Review on other occasions. So it will come as no surprise that In and O…
"Response to "Change to Win
Crisis in the U.S. Labor Movement
There is no disputing that these are tough times for the working class and its allies (all those oppressed by capitalism). The working class lacks a political party; social services to assist us with the inevitable problems we face have been eroded; and even our few precious institutions, especially unions, seem overwhelmed by the relentless attacksThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publis…
Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell
On March 8, 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Immokalee, Florida won a significant victory. In a precedent-setting move, fast-food giant Yum! Brands Inc., the world's largest restaurant corporation, agreed to all the farm workers' demands (and more!) if the CIW would end the four-year-old boycott of its subsidiary Taco Bell. (Yum!, a spin off from Pepsi, includes Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, AandW, Long John Silver's, and Pi…
From first to third gear
Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger. NOT AUTOMATIC: WOMEN AND THE LEFT IN THE FORGING OF THE AUTO WORKERS UNION. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000
What Goes Around Comes Around
When I was asked to write on the history of May Day, I took a big gulp. Having never been taught about May Day in either school or college, I had to do some reading. Oh, I knew the basic one sentence, isn't that when they hung those guys in Chicago for throwing a bomb? Clearly that wouldn't be enough of a speech, nor is it in fact the real story. So after all my digging, I'm going to start with my conclusion: as the old saying goes, "What goes ar…
The Women Who Organized Harvard
Balloons transformed Harvard Yard on May 17, 1988, the day the "servants of the university," as workers were originally called, voted on whether to join the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), an affiliate of AFSCME. "Ballooning" lightened the tension, but Kristine Rondeau, lead union organizer, had a grim warning for her staff: "You did a wonderful job. But we don't have it...It's very likely we didn't win." In fact, by a sl…
Testimony Before the Reich/Dunlop Commission January 5, 1994
Hi, my name is Elly Leary. I'm a living example of the new world order of global competition. I used to be an auto assembler at the General Motors plant in Framingham, Massachusetts. I worked there from 1977 to August 1989, when the plant closed and its work was shifted to the new Flint, Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. In 1989, without overtime I was making nearly $28,000 a year. Today, as a full-time secretary at Boston University and member of UAW Local …
Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell
On March 8, 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Immokalee, Florida won a significant victory. In a precedent-setting move, fast-food giant Yum! Brands Inc., the world's largest restaurant corporation, agreed to all the farm workers' demands (and more!) if the CIW would end the four-year-old boycott of its subsidiary Taco Bell. (Yum!, a spin off from Pepsi, includes Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, AandW, Long John Silver's, and Pi…
Crisis in the U.S. Labor Movement
There is no disputing that these are tough times for the working class and its allies (all those oppressed by capitalism). The working class lacks a political party; social services to assist us with the inevitable problems we face have been eroded; and even our few precious institutions, especially unions, seem overwhelmed by the relentless attacksThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publis…
The Women Who Organized Harvard
Balloons transformed Harvard Yard on May 17, 1988, the day the "servants of the university," as workers were originally called, voted on whether to join the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), an affiliate of AFSCME. "Ballooning" lightened the tension, but Kristine Rondeau, lead union organizer, had a grim warning for her staff: "You did a wonderful job. But we don't have it...It's very likely we didn't win." In fact, by a sl…
Testimony Before the Reich/Dunlop Commission January 5, 1994
Hi, my name is Elly Leary. I'm a living example of the new world order of global competition. I used to be an auto assembler at the General Motors plant in Framingham, Massachusetts. I worked there from 1977 to August 1989, when the plant closed and its work was shifted to the new Flint, Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. In 1989, without overtime I was making nearly $28,000 a year. Today, as a full-time secretary at Boston University and member of UAW Local …
The Women Who Organized Harvard
Balloons transformed Harvard Yard on May 17, 1988, the day the "servants of the university," as workers were originally called, voted on whether to join the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), an affiliate of AFSCME. "Ballooning" lightened the tension, but Kristine Rondeau, lead union organizer, had a grim warning for her staff: "You did a wonderful job. But we don't have it...It's very likely we didn't win." In fact, by a sl…
What Goes Around Comes Around
When I was asked to write on the history of May Day, I took a big gulp. Having never been taught about May Day in either school or college, I had to do some reading. Oh, I knew the basic one sentence, isn't that when they hung those guys in Chicago for throwing a bomb? Clearly that wouldn't be enough of a speech, nor is it in fact the real story. So after all my digging, I'm going to start with my conclusion: as the old saying goes, "What goes ar…
From first to third gear
Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger. NOT AUTOMATIC: WOMEN AND THE LEFT IN THE FORGING OF THE AUTO WORKERS UNION. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000
Crisis in the U.S. Labor Movement
There is no disputing that these are tough times for the working class and its allies (all those oppressed by capitalism). The working class lacks a political party; social services to assist us with the inevitable problems we face have been eroded; and even our few precious institutions, especially unions, seem overwhelmed by the relentless attacksThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are publis…
Immokalee Workers Take Down Taco Bell
On March 8, 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Immokalee, Florida won a significant victory. In a precedent-setting move, fast-food giant Yum! Brands Inc., the world's largest restaurant corporation, agreed to all the farm workers' demands (and more!) if the CIW would end the four-year-old boycott of its subsidiary Taco Bell. (Yum!, a spin off from Pepsi, includes Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, AandW, Long John Silver's, and Pi…
"Response to "Change to Win
Gramsci's Grandchild
Michael D. Yates, In and Out of the Working Class (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2009), 217 pages, $19.95, paperback.Okay. Let's get the disclaimers out of the way right now. I am a longtime fan of Mike Yates. A big fan. I have used his materials with community and labor activists, made some contributions to a few of his works, and answered his call to write for Monthly Review on other occasions. So it will come as no surprise that In and O…
Labor Revolts in the 1970s
Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, and Cal Winslow, editors, Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and the Revolt from Below During the Long Seventies (New York: Verso, 2010), 472 pages, $29.95, paperback.Rebel Rank and File is a collection of articles that surveys the building, heydey, and decline of rank and file workers' movement in the fields, mines, auto plants, schools, trucking and phone companies in the late 1960s through the 1970s. What makes…
A Most Reliable Ally
Martin Luther King, Jr., edited with introductions by Michael K. Honey, All Labor Has Dignity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011), 240 pages, $17.00, paperback.Many Americans who have failed to look deeply into the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. hold false assumptions about him. One is that he was a moderate solely focused on achieving civil rights for American Negroes (his terminology), and that he had a dream about a country where, as he said in Au…
Interview with Bill Gallegos
As we veteran activists of the 1960s and early '70s enter our años del retiro , it is time for reflection, summation, and most importantly sharing what we have learned with those reaching to grab the baton. Many of us, now grandparents, are getting questions from our grandkids and kids about our lives in the "golden age" of U.S. social movements. ... Bill Gallegos has been an activist since the 1960s, when he became involved in Crusade for Justic…
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