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A Year for Revision

A Year for Revision Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant celebrates with members of the organization “15 Now” after the highest minimum wage in the country unanimously passed in June 2014. Ashley Gross, KPLU 542159 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014542159New Labor ForumPaul research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 72–75 A Year for Revision Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542159 nlf.sagepub.com Ari Paul Keywords labor, education, politics, union democracy, working class The past year brought some good news for orga- in the working-class culture of the Rust Belt, nized labor, but it was the paradoxical sort: a was simply unprepared for the political envi- long overdue round of self-examination in the ronment in the South. Another view blamed the face of organizing defeat and internal union defeat on the campaign’s avoidance of grass- reform intended to make way for new militancy roots, organizer-to-worker conversations. Ask and new alliances. If there was ever a more yourself this: would you vote to have dues encouraging display of labor’s soul-searching deducted from your paycheck to join what than the close loss in the unionization vote at the could be described as a partner of your boss? Volkswagen plant in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

A Year for Revision

Paul, Ari
New Labor Forum , Volume 23 (3): 4 – Sep 1, 2014
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Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant celebrates with members of the organization “15 Now” after the highest minimum wage in the country unanimously passed in June 2014. Ashley Gross, KPLU 542159 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796014542159New Labor ForumPaul research-article2014 New Labor Forum 2014, Vol. 23(3) 72–75 A Year for Revision Copyright © 2014, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542159 nlf.sagepub.com Ari Paul Keywords labor, education, politics, union democracy, working class The past year brought some good news for orga- in the working-class culture of the Rust Belt, nized labor, but it was the paradoxical sort: a was simply unprepared for the political envi- long overdue round of self-examination in the ronment in the South. Another view blamed the face of organizing defeat and internal union defeat on the campaign’s avoidance of grass- reform intended to make way for new militancy roots, organizer-to-worker conversations. Ask and new alliances. If there was ever a more yourself this: would you vote to have dues encouraging display of labor’s soul-searching deducted from your paycheck to join what than the close loss in the unionization vote at the could be described as a partner of your boss? Volkswagen plant in

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