The White Man's Best Chance at a Strong Contract

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In every hospital campaign where i've approached the work as a whall hospital approach to the work, ecause that's how workers have any chance of having maximum power. The boss would definitely drive the that the registered nurses and the high level text were middle class workers who were deserving of something more than the rest of the workers. So just sticking to the one example, and then let's come back to like the meadow way, i think it's really dangerous. And again, it's highly racialized. They're just us in class as a nother, trying not to say, you don't belong in the union with all the black people on all the let yoknow,.

“Building a wall won't save America's crumbling middle class,” Elizabeth Warren tells us. “Sanders healthcare will raise taxes on the middle class,” a CNN headline reads. “There’ war on the middle class,” a Boston Globe editorial laments. The term “middle class” is used so much by pundits and politicians, it could easily be the Free Space in any political rhetoric Bingo card. After all, who’s opposed to strengthening, widening, and protecting the “middle class”? Like “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights”, “middle class” is an unimpeachable, unassailable label that evokes warm feelings and a sense of collective morality. But the term itself, always slippery and changing based on context, has evolved from a vague aspiration marked by safety, a nice home, and a white picket fence into something more sinister, racially-coded, and deliberately obscuring. The middle class isn’t about concrete, material positive rights of good housing and economic security––it’s a capitalist carrot hovering over our heads telling us such things are possible if we Only Work Harder. More than anything, it's a way for politicians to gesture towards populism without the messiness of mentioning––much less centering––the poor and poverty. This week we are joined by Jane McAlevey, a union organizer, scholar and Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center.