Cory DoctorowA Collective Bargain: Workplace democracy is a training ground for true national democracy
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
#reviews #Unions #labor #JaneMcAlevey #democracy #WinningElections #OccupyDemocrats
Bosses rig #union votes the same way Republicans rig elections: #disinformation, divide-and-rule, #VoterSuppression, #gerrymandering. Union organizers know how to win that kind of election, and they can teach us all.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
The #DemocraticParty establishment wants voters to cast a ballot and then go to sleep for two years until it's time to cast another ballot. That's why they hate #unions: unions stay awake, demanding that the Democrats GOVERN instead of selling out.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
If only the #DemocraticParty leadership took #unions as seriously as #billionaires do!
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
#JaneMcAlevey knows how to win elections - not with "data-driven microtargeting," but with supermajorities of active people who build their strength by winning fight after fight after fight.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
Rob LoftisMcAlevey's book is excellent.
Laura J Mixon@pluralistic This is brilliant and so important to realize. It’s holographic: the pattern of the fight is there at every level of discourse.