Is There a New Narrative in Unions?

How did you get information about unions in the past particularly when distances felt long and media was not so rapid? You look up the stories that were written up in the traditional newspapers which I've done it various times. They have no relationship to what's actually going on from the perspective that I know as someone who has looked at the archives and the history. People are changing the narrative all the time. What one needs to do in this case as in any organizing case is to create a narrative that appeals to lots of people. That in some ways overwhelms the narrative that is based on misinformation or on anti-union biases or whatever it is.

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