Academics, Activists Search for New Ways to Revitalize Labor Movement
More than 200 academics and labor activists came together yesterday to discuss strategies for revitalizing the union movement.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler set the tone for the conference, sponsored by Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Union membership numbers aren’t a popularity poll, nor a reflection of a declining need for unions—just a sad reflection of how incredibly difficult it is for workers to form unions in our modern corporate environment. It’s a tragic commentary on today’s economy that good, middle-class union jobs have left America.
