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Richard O'Connor is a classically trained artist/painter and a blues musician. He is a polio survivor,has been a disability rights advocate and social justice advocate for over 30 years, and lives in western Massachusetts.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 21, 2009 Why Unions Have Failed, and Obama Should Let Them
This essay relates my personal experiences in two unions:: Communications Workers of America and The International Brother hood of Electrical Workers. I discuss my experiences within the context of two historically Black Unions: the Pullman Porter Union and the Boston Society of Vulcans, and how workers unions have failed to include/represent minorities, women and the disabled..