Stephen Lerner
Stephen Lerner
Stephen Lerneris a labor and community organizer who has spent more than three decades organizing hundreds of thousands of janitors, farm workers, garment workers, and other low-wage workers into unions...
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If you stage a job action, a manufacturing company can pull up stakes and you lose the jobs. In property services, a job action may cause one company to go and another to come in, but the jobs are still there. You can be more daring; you can take greater risks.
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The world is shrinking so quickly that US cities look more and more alike and major capitals look more and more alike, and there are similar solutions.
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We think that this is an important moment in history and a terrific opportunity to act globally. They are global companies and we need to be global unions.
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We're elated that these workers, who have sacrificed so much and who have been so dedicated to winning a voice and winning a union, will go back to work with their heads held high, winning a breakthrough for immigrant workers throughout the country.