Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a mentor at our Kressley Institute and the co-author of the recently published Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice.

Bill is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com, and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum. Solidarity Divided offers an analysis of the crisis of organized labor and suggests not only the nature of the problems faced by labor unions but also offers proposals for what unions should be doing to represent working class people, particularly in critical times like these.  Fletcher is the author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on organized labor, Black America, U.S. electoral politics, and international affairs.  He has years of experience in the union movement as well as in community action.  He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .