“If there is no struggle there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” —Frederick Douglass, 1857
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” —Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
Articles/Websites:
- Needed: Workplace Democracy by Thom Hartmann
- Why I Need a Union by David E. Mears
- Why I Hate the Union and Don’t Want to Get Involved by Local 083 Stewards
- American Rights at Work (Website)
- U.S. Export: Union Busting
- The Right to Organize (New York Times, 3/6/2007)
- Loser Liberalism Versus Power Populism
- Outsourcing Top Management
- Union Advantage by the Numbers
Videos:
- “A union can make a big difference to people’s perceptions of a job,” says John Wood of the Trades Union Congress in Britain. And he’s made this clever little video which has got to be seen by anyone who needs a union in their workplace but doesn’t yet know that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLGoKqPAhSk
- Introduction to Unions