The Case for Unions
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 25, 2018
Jane McAlevey, labor and environmental organizer, post doctoral fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author of (now in paperback) No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), argues that progressives need more of the hard work of organizing mass movements to be effective and talks about recent labor actions in Las Vegas and by red-state teachers.
The Janus case before SCOTUS is "nothing but a billionaire class attack on working people's power," says @rsgexp
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The future of the labor movement is in "mission-driven professions" like education and healthcare, which are also women-led, says @rsgexp.
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