Hey Shift Workers,
"Now more than ever, as go unions, so goes democracy," writes labour organizer Jane McAlevey for The Nation.
These are words I am taking into 2022.
McAlevey explains how the collective bargaining process provides opportunities for political education to cut through far right messaging:
"[T]he majority of workers sit up and pay attention to collective action when their contracts are going to expire. And given the cynicism most people rightly have toward electoral politics, it takes contract and strike mobilizations to engage in meaningful political education about which set of politicians is connected to which set of corporate leaders."
McAlevey will host a new series interviewing labour organizers from around the world on January 27 to understand What Winning Looks Like.
- Emily
