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Think of the United States in the 1970s, and a number of images come to mind, few of them appealing: disco music; gas shortages; the Watergate scandal; a U.S. president citing a “crisis of confidence” among Americans; a last helicopter lifting off the...
/PRNewswire/ -- Amidst a global pandemic and ever-increasing worker inequality, the need to effectively organize and uplift worker voices towards better and...
/PRNewswire/ -- Amidst a global pandemic and ever-increasing worker inequality, the need to effectively organize and uplift worker voices towards better and...
The Funding Dilemma Unlike unions, worker centers canât be sustained by their membersâ dues. So survival is an ongoing challenge. The art of financially sustaining a configuration of working people has bedeviled alt-labor organizations from the get-go. Even now, they remain locked in a careful, complicated dance with the foundations, unions, and individual donors who subsidize their work. Mainstream unions were able to achieve economic independence due to a convergence of historical forces in the 1930s, which led to wide-scale collective bargaining in an era of relatively supportive...