This op-ed argues that Black labor organizers have long recognized that better conditions for Black and brown workers result in better conditions for everyone.
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Worker centers in general serve as a clearinghouse for workers’ needs when forming a union is all but impossible. Even in anti-union terrains, the centers have found ways to change public and corporate policies.
Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
A victory at Bessemer would be great. But even without that workers at Amazon, Walmart, and Microsoft will continue to organize. Why? Because management can never represent the interests of the workforce.
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