Here's another interesting video from The New Yorker Conference (those New Yorker people are always so darn interesting!). In this one, the magazine's financial columnist, James Surowiecki, chats with Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern about the future of unions. This year's New Yorker Conference is supposed to focus on innovation, but even as Stern talks about how organized labor has innovated and changed with the shifting economy, it's clear that he still thinks of employment as a collectivist enterprise. That is, he thinks of writers as working in a writer's community, not as individuals who should??be hired, fired, paid based on their individual skills.
