The Joe Kenehan Center is an online opinion site created by Carter Wright, blogging to break tradition's chains and diminish old fears since 2002.
About the Joe Kenehan Center
Joe Kenehan is a fictional union organizer created by writer-director John Sayles. Kenehan was a main character in Sayles' 1987 film Matewan, played by Chris Cooper. Sayles first introduced the character in his very fine 1977 novel Union Dues.
In Sayles' novel and film, Joe Kenehan travels to Mingo County, West Virginia in 1920 to help a group of coal miners organize a union with the United Mine Workers of America. He is later murdered by private security guards hired by a coal company.
Carter Wright is the founder of the Joe Kenehan Center and the editor of its blog. I work on the staff of the Service Employees International Union District 1199NW, a union of more than 15,000 health care workers in Washington State.
The Joe Kenehan Center is not affiliated with SEIU.