'Applying the principles of collective bargaining to all these arenas will give us a voice and equal power to assert and secure our rights against the wishes of global capital to oppress and exploit us.'
Applying the principles of collective bargaining to all these arenas will give us a voice and equal power to assert and secure our rights against the wishes of global capital to oppress and exploit us.
The understanding of workers as whole people must fundamentally shift our strategies and how we think about what collective bargaining could entail. This inevitably changes the very nature of what a union contract covers, broadening what individuals can negotiate over and who they can negotiate with — from their direct “boss” to the individuals with concentrated power in their sector or community.
This is just one of the important reasons why a reimagined and reinvigorated labor movement for the twenty-first century needs to embrace the goal not just of organizing all people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, and other characteristics, but of tapping the leadership skills and experience of all people as well.
This requires us to have a strong democracy. Healthy democracy is the product of collective participation in a shared habit. It’s not just that people aren’t joining unions; they also aren’t joining PTAs, church associations, rotaries, and other volunteer groups with democratically-elected positions within their communities. And civic participation’s demise also models political participation’s demise.
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