With the apparent decline of union power evidenced by the decreasing numbers of union members and strikes per year, as well as by the enactment of right-to-work laws in five states since 2012 and the Supreme Court ruling this year against required union fees for public employees in the Janus case, the labor movement appears to be struggling against current political climates, writes David Sessions in The New Republic.
A new book, A History of America in Ten Strikes, suggests that what unions need to do to revitalize what characterized the powerful labor movement during its heyday years after the New Deal is to re-emphasize to workers that the labor movement is about more than simply wage and benefit protections, but that involvement in labor movements gives workers a stronger say in societal conditions and the politics that may prevent respect and fairness. We have a link to Sessions report -- "America’s Missing Labor Party" -- on our website, dclabor.org For today’s labor calendar – which includes a number of labor to labor phone banks in the area, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1873, the Miners’ National Association was formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background. Today’s labor quote is by Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Norman Thomas, who said: “I am not a champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.”
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