Bravo to the American Political Science Association which has chosen to move the location of its 2006 meeting from San Francisco to Philadelphia in light of a labor dispute that has roiled relations between hotel workers and their employers. It's good to see that an organization which epsouses a number of progressive goals is willing to put its money where its mouth is.
Would that all such groups did the same thing. I attended the 2004 meeting of the International Studies Association in Montreal which was held in the midst of a similar situation. It was remarkable the number of supposed friends of labor and progressive groups who had no problem at all with crossing the picket lines. There were even some who seemed somewhere between appalled and stunned that some of the rest of us considered it appropriate to skip a panel just on a silly point of principle relating to what some poor maids were paid. For example, I was berated by my former advisor (staunchly pro-life, but otherwise firmly on the left of the political spectrum) for refusing to attend mine. Thankfully, my panel's discussant was more understanding or I would have been banned from attending the conference the following year.
It's good to see APSA showing the integrity respect for its membership that ISA did not.
Posted by armand at August 6, 2005 04:40 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics