Can worker-to-worker organizing allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline?
Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.
But local governments - cities and counties - are stepping up to advocate for workers.
The Washington Bulb Company has agreed to the demands of workers after a three-day strike.
After the stunning victory at Amazon by a little-known independent union that didn’t exist 18 months ago, organized labor has begun to ask itself an increasingly pressing question: Does the labor movement need to get more disorganized?
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