Listened to NYC journalist and St. Augustine native Hamilton Nolan interview on labor unions by Anne Schinder on First Coast Connect, taped July 3, 2024, 89.9 FM, wjct.org/listen. Remarkable interview about worker rights and the growing oligarchy of oligopolists and how to counter their power. First Coast Connect host Anne Schindler was longtime Folio Weekly editor when she worked with 1999 St. Augustine H.S. graduate Hamilton Nolan started his journalistic career there. As the Washington Post writes, " In his new book, “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor,” journalist Hamilton Nolan seeks to explain what he calls “the dizzying potential of organized labor, as well as the heartbreaking flaws that hold it back.” Hamilton Nolan organized Gawker journalists into a union local circa 2015, after a six week campaign. As the proud only offspring of my mom and dad, two volunteer labor union organizers, the late Mary Elizabeth Donlon Slavin, and my dad, former 82nd ABN Divn. paratrooper CPL Ed Slavin, Sr., I am delighted that America's union support is at a 50-year high. Circa 1970, it took my mom some 50 minutes to get some 40 union cards signed for International Union of Electrical Workers Local Union 440 at Camden County College in Blackwood, N.J. I helped my mom picket. We won. Fun fact: Hamilton Nolan is the son of St. Augustine's esteemed civil rights historian David Nolan.
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