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UNIONS
What are they? What do they do? What should I be reading?
Put simply - unions are organizations of workers with one goal: to protect the worker in the workplace.
Why should we care?
Easy. As James Green writes in "Why Teach Labor History," young people should "study the contributions that generations of union activists have made to building a nation and to democratizing and humanizing its often brutal workplaces. While their predecessors successfully fought for monumental changes that benefited all Americans (not just union members), such as passing the Social Security Act of 1935 and ending child labor, today’s union veterans can take pride in their own accomplishments."
Unions: Text
Further Reading
I'll Be Damned if I Go Back to Work Under These Conditions!
A May Day Speech
Combating the Actor's Sacrifice: How to Amend Labor Law to Influence the Labor Practices of Theaters and Incentivize Actors to Fight for their Rights
Unions: List
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