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The Future We Need
In The Future We Need
, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective
to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like
in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to
match the needs of modern people-not only changing their wages and
working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of
their lives.
Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and
Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as
a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and
explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build
for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and
tomorrow's contexts. The Future We Need illustrates the
necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and
gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the
power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era.
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Fining McWalmart
The article reports on several low-wage workers and allies protesting across the U.S., demanding a raise to the federal minimum wage. It is said that minimum wage increases may not build the sustained power that comes from strong worker organizations and the government's focus should be on strategies that build it.
Journal Article
THE GREAT ROLLBACK
In the end, the Dixiecrats won. They outlasted Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert F. Wagner, and other supporters of the New Deal reforms. They steadily chipped away at the gains everyday people had made, rolling back the broad intentions behind the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and forced labor; the Fourteenth Amendment, which broadened citizenship; and the Fifteenth Amendment, which expanded the right to vote. In each case, these reforms were scaled back to the most narrow interpretations, making them vulnerable to further erosion in the spirit of protecting the individual wealth of a select few and holding onto the legacy
Book Chapter
WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY DOES NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT
To fully understand the important role of collective bargaining in our national life, it’s important to know something about collective bargaining’s history. How and why do we enjoy access to collective bargaining in some arenas today? Why do we lack it in many others? What does experience tell us about how the benefits of collective bargaining can be spread more widely? History helps us answer all these questions.
However, books and articles about the history of collective bargaining, and the US labor movement more generally, tend to focus on big institutions like the AFL-CIO. These institutions are important and definitely
Book Chapter
WORTH FIGHTING FOR
The labor movement is not dead. In fact, unions and other organizations of working people are actively evolving to meet the needs of the modern worker and the environment she operates in.
In this chapter we will focus on some of the battlefields of this fight. If we hope to improve our chances of expanding collective bargaining beyond the workplace, we need to do a better job of protecting our home turf—the workplace itself.
While we have seen how some specific failures by organized labor have made unions and the people they represent vulnerable to new kinds of attacks
Book Chapter
BEYOND WORKERS
Organizing people as workers is not enough. As the strategies deployed by capital change, the specific mechanisms working people access must also change to apply to all the ways in which humans relate to capital.
Economic democracy in the twenty-first century cannot be achieved solely within a framework focused exclusively on worksites. Rather we must explore a more expansive definition of collective bargaining that adapts to the context of global capitalism and all its features, including addressing the material and cultural needs of the modern worker—who, shockingly, does not solely identify as a worker but sees themselves as having
Book Chapter
BARGAINING WITH THE REAL DECISION-MAKERS
Several decades ago, a person could walk into a large retailer, hotel, hospital, manufacturer, or restaurant and assume correctly that most, if not all, of the people working there were employees of the company or brand displayed on the building outside. Under that framework, the rules of twentieth-century collective bargaining made sense. It assumed that direct employees could negotiate with their direct employers, often represented by on-site executives and managers accountable to the brand.
Today, that has changed. A person may walk into the same building they did thirty years ago, a building with the same logo on the outside
Book Chapter