Why We Need a Strong Labor Movement
With recent union drives at workplaces from Starbucks to Amazon to Apple, labor organizing is on the rise again after decades of low levels of unionization in the US.
Dorian Warren—a labor scholar and organizer, and co-president of Community Change—has been a leader in such organizing efforts.
The stakes are high: “No labor movement means no strong democracy. No labor movement means no middle class,” Warren tells hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky on this week’s episode of How to Save a Country.
Warren also talks about why federal leadership is important when it comes to labor rights, how the fight for a $15 minimum wage became mainstream, and the ways unions can create social and political communities and multiracial solidarity.
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