Former Labor Organizer Shaun Richman Writes about State of Unions
In his book TELL THE BOSSES WE'RE COMING: former labor organizer Shaun Richman discusses the state of unions today, how they got to this point, and what actions he believes can change their fortunes. He reveals that though most of us would likely assume that unions and how they go about their work are the result of active, strategic choices, Richman reveals that they’re actually the product of partisan legal decisions, ideological struggles, and what he contends are the movement's self-imposed and outdated ideas about what a “union” is and what it should do. He asserts that the current moment…
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