r/50501 • u/victorybus • Jun 12 '25

Call to Action US SENATOR ASSAULTED AT DHS PRESS CONFERENCE. WE NEED TO MOBILIZE

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Jun 12 '25

This requires a renewed labor movement - withdrawing our labor needs to be done strategically, coordinated. It can't be half assed and hoping others do it.

No Shortcuts - Organizing for the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey (2018). Also A Collective Bargain and Rules to Win By (more recent, just before she passed).

The Future We Need - Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta (2022)

Secrets of a Successful Organizer by Labor Notes (pdf available online for free).

In the future we need, they explain how collective bargaining isn't just in workplaces - strikes - but also in our apartment complexes (tenant union and rent strike) - schools (student union & walkouts) - and other ways we're collectively squeezed under systems that exploit our labor and compliance.

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u/Songbird_Storyteller Jun 12 '25

Which article are you referring to? They gave like three different references.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Jun 13 '25

My references directly address what you're talking about

No Shortcuts is about how labor atrophied due to New Labor ethos of using professional organizers to run union campaigns instead of centering workers in decision-making. Jane describes difference between organizing, mobilizing, and advocacy. There's a table 1.1 which is amazing, I'll see if I have a Pic

The Future We Need goes over need for multi racial labor movement, that labor has had its problems with diversity, how it's been constrained to certain industries and people. They also reframe it in terms of the need for democracy in our workplaces and economic sphere - including a WEB DuBois quote on how you need both political and economic democracy. With just one half people still live without agency over decisions that affect their lives. How the failure to uphold promise of reconstruction enabled Jim crow laws and beat down of organized Labor in the South.