As an organizer, I was not taught or trained to examine those things. And we should do more of that in labor organizing. The language that we use the practices that we embrace in organizing end up giving shape to the union that workers build whether we want them to or not. "I actually do have a very important role to play in a union organizing drive," she says. 'It's not that the role of staff organizer ought not be to lead the campaign'
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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