Worker Activism After Successful Union OrganizingShows how different levels of worker participation during a union organizing campaign influence the perceptions and actions of those same workers after the campaign ends, and, thereby, the long-term effectiveness and success of the organizing effort. Drawing on historical and current examples, the author analyzes the political and economic contexts within which today's unions are organizing, including a detailed examination of the impact of the Wagner Act. |
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Page 7 - The labor movement must demonstrate that union representation is the best available means for working people to express their individuality on the job and their desire to control their own working lives and that unions are democratic institutions controlled by their members and we have not been sufficiently successful on either score.
Page 5 - It was an education in knowing ourselves, too. I think a lot of us grew a lot through it. We did things that we never thought we were capable of before. We went and talked to management, made our ideas clear, made our thoughts clear, our wants clear, our needs clear, which I (ten years ago) probably would have sat back and said, "I can't do that, I'm just a lowly LPN.