Michael Winship in Mondays Chimp: Despite diminished membership, fierce conservative attacks on unions representing public workers, rules and policies that have stacked the deck against working people and a perception by many that unions are no longer needed or relevant to the new service, high-tech, global economy, steps have begun toward restoring workers’ rights. Borosage points to alliances with fast-food workers and other low-wage earners, as well as progressive movements in the Los Angeles and San Francisco city governments pushing for a living wage, universal health care and minimum labor standards for employers. He writes, To respond to the transformation of the workplace and the spread of contingent jobs, workers will need to find new ways of joining with consumers in creative protests.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:47:12 +0000
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