From the Long Resignation to the Great Awakening?
Unionization campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks show that we might just be living through the start of a new wave of worker organizing. Socialists need to go all in.
Unionization campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks show that we might just be living through the start of a new wave of worker organizing. Socialists need to go all in.
Decades-long union democracy fights have just won big in the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers, creating big opportunities for socialists.
We need the combined power of labor law reform and militant unions to rebuild workers’ power.
The conditions that made workers in Bessemer fight back aren’t going away. Some workers want the powerful to feel what it means to have power wielded against them.
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.