A lack of leadership and too much focus on D.C. politics is holding back momentum around unionization, according to labor advocates familiar with internal workings at the AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for 57 unions and 12.5 million workers.
A lack of leadership and too much focus on D.C. politics is holding back momentum around unionization, labor advocates familiar with internal workings at theWith a sympathetic White House, a tight labor market and workers around the country voting to unionize, this should betaking off. But insiders say institutional labor is so far failing to live up to the challenge.
"For far too long our growth strategy has been entirely attached to politics, but that has failed us over and over,” Tefere Gebre, who just stepped down as executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO, toldThe successful Amazon union vote in Staten Island earlier this month is just one example of a grassroots effort that took Big Labor by surprise.went out on strike, but it was the pandemic and the current labor shortage that really served to energize hourly workers in the U.S.
"But I see leadership in every workplace, every industry, on every picket line, and I know this is the moment that change is coming," she adds., Jon Hiatt, the former general counsel for both the AFL-CIO and the SEIU , calls for a systematic program organized at the national level to provide assistance to worker-organized efforts around the country. This would offer funding, legal advice, employer research and bargaining support that smaller grassroots efforts lack.
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