Reviving the Strike
This blog argues that the labor movement must revive an effective strike based on the traditional tactics of labor--stopping production and workplace-based solidarity. The blog also promotes my book, due to be published by IG Publishing in May 2011, Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.
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Secondary Strikes are Primary to Labor's Revival
Originally published in Labor Notes http://www.labornotes.org/2010/10/secondary-strikes-are-primary-labor-revival
Solidarity is the heart and soul of unionism—the only force capable of confronting power and privilege in society. To revive unionism, we must recover labor’s long-lost tools of workplace-based solidarity.
Secondary Strikes Are Primary to Labor’s Revival
Joe Burns
| November 4, 2010
Solidarity is the heart and soul of unionism—the only force capable of confronting power and privilege in society. To revive unionism, we must recover labor’s long-lost tools of workplace-based solidarity.
Today, union activists join each other’s picket lines and hold fundraisers for striking workers. While important, these acts of solidarity are largely conducted away from the workplace.
In contrast, labor’s traditional forms of workplace-based solidarity allowed workers to join across employers and even industries to confront bosses. Such tactics included secondary strikes and industry-wide strikes.
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