January 16, 2010   Mr. Costello was born in Boston on June 13, 1945 to Thomas and Claire (MacPhee) Costello, and raised in Dedham, MA. As a teenager he worked with his father as a construction laborer and learned from him the value of worker organization, often typing the correspondence of the Brotherhood of Railway… Read More »

January 3, 2010   The news of Tim’s death reached me when I was sorting out my computers after a three-month absence. I recall sending a short note of condolence to Jeremy and Brendan but cannot now find it. Tim has continued to be on my mind with the passage of time and I have… Read More »

January 8, 2010   KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: Tim Costello, the blue-collar intellectual, truck-driving internationalist and globally respected author who died in December at 64 (from pancreatic cancer), fully embraced the anti-corporate globalization slogan: “Another World Is Possible.” Costello was the energetic founder of groups such as the Campaign on Contingent Work, the North American Alliance… Read More »

January 6, 2010   We mourn the loss of visionary Tim Costello, a man who had prescient knowledge and understanding of the needs of hourly-wage workers and those at the lower end of the earning scale, those with little power to oppose outsourcing of jobs to other countries and the use of temporary workers –… Read More »