A Union Job Is Electrifying
It’s important for socialists to be on the shop floor. It’s easy for members to get angry at “the hall,” but a union is only strong when it’s member-run.
It’s important for socialists to be on the shop floor. It’s easy for members to get angry at “the hall,” but a union is only strong when it’s member-run.
With a strike, healthcare workers reverse privatization. DSA was with them all the way.
Get a union job you enjoy, one you can do for a long time. There will be ups and downs.
“With a rank-and-file job, you’re making relationships you’re going to develop over decades. It’s a deeper kind of organizing.”
Socialists can be effective workplace organizers if they get a union job and organize alongside their coworkers. That’s what we’re doing at UPS.
I realized I didn’t want to support from the sidelines. I wanted to be immersed in workplace struggle as a rank-and-file worker. That’s where the power is.
Rank-and-file organizing got the Seattle Police Officers Guild expelled from the local labor council.
The fight for union democracy is an essential part of the socialist movement. That’s why DSA members in the UAW should support a new effort to reform the union.
The Rank-and-File Strategy includes a ton of different ways for DSA members to get involved with rebuilding a labor movement that knows how to fight. It’s all about getting connected to workers in motion.
DSA’s labor work should prioritize developing and empowering a growing layer of rank-and-file workers to fight the bosses and transform our unions into militant and democratic vehicles for class struggle and organizing the unorganized.