I’m sorry - and I wish it were otherwise - but having a few hundred union staff rallying does not constitute fighting back. Maybe we’ll see something different this Saturday, but so far this year it looks like only in Chicago are labor unions turning out significant numbers of members - I mean thousands and tens of thousands marching under union banners - at rallies, and there’s little reportage anywhere of the sort of intensive anti-authoritarian labor education we so desperately need.
I agree completly. But momentum also takes time to build. I got an email from my union today taking a stance on this, when they have been historically... quiet... politically (to a problematic extent).
It brings me hope that things are gaining speed and force.
I’m sorry - and I wish it were otherwise - but having a few hundred union staff rallying does not constitute fighting back. Maybe we’ll see something different this Saturday, but so far this year it looks like only in Chicago are labor unions turning out significant numbers of members - I mean thousands and tens of thousands marching under union banners - at rallies, and there’s little reportage anywhere of the sort of intensive anti-authoritarian labor education we so desperately need.
I agree completly. But momentum also takes time to build. I got an email from my union today taking a stance on this, when they have been historically... quiet... politically (to a problematic extent).
It brings me hope that things are gaining speed and force.