Chris Bohner

Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump Nobody should underestimate the importance of defending our movement against Trump’s looming attacks. But it’s not factually or tactically justified to dismiss the potential for labor advance over the...

With Trump’s impending return, rebuilding a fighting labour movement is more important than ever. Here @ericblanc.bsky.social and @radishresearch.bsky.social make the case for how unions can keep building in the Trump era:

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Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump Donald Trump will do his best to undermine unions. But the labor movement still has momentum on its side and numerous opportunities to seize. Trump’s presidency has to be a time for labor action, not ...

"Sometimes going on the offense is also the best form of defense."

Good insights and data from Chris Bohner @radishresearch.bsky.social and Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social

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Lean Into the Punch Labor under Trump.

The instinct of a lot of unions will be to retreat and hunker down and try to ride out the Trump years. That instinct will get us killed. Offense is defense now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lean-into-...

Trump's reelection brings challenges for workers, but the fight isn't over. Learn why labor can still thrive and why bold organizing is essential in @ericblanc.bsky.social & @radishresearch.bsky.social's piece for Labor Politics, now posted on @poweratwork.bsky.social: poweratwork.us/labors-resur...

Trump’s election doesn't have to mean the labor resurgence is over

Unions actually organized more workers under George W. Bush than under Obama (mostly because labor seriously funded organizing in the early 2000s)

Here's why unions can still go on the offensive today 🧵

Where Did the Labor Vote Go? - Boston Review Until unions open the gates, they won't deliver working-class voters to Democrats.

Thoughtful & tough reflection on next steps for labor:
"We can’t afford to turn down any of the 52 percent of non-union workers who say that...they would vote to join a union today..This effort will require unions to radically rethink their organizing strategy"

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Thank's very much for for the rec's, excited to read these.

Thanks!

Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump Does Trump’s re-election mean that the US labor resurgence is over? Not necessarily. It’s true that the new administration is preparing major attacks against workers and the labor movement. And many u...

A friend sent me this piece by @radishresearch.bsky.social this morning - motivating read for how the labor movement can rise to the occasion in the face of four more years of Trump
portside.org/2024-11-18/l...

Any suggestions for books/articles on public sector organizing in the 1960s and 70s? It seems relevant today - organizing under hostile legal conditions. Thx!

"It’s worth remembering that US labor’s current uptick began with the statewide teachers’ strikes that swept across red states in 2018 during Trump’s first term."

An optimistic read in pessimistic times.

Time to organize!

Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump Donald Trump will do his best to undermine unions. But the labor movement still has momentum on its side and numerous opportunities to seize. Trump’s presidency has to be a time for labor action, not ...

5. Organized labor is reforming
6. Young worker activism is not going away
7. The (latent) power of unions to disrupt the political and economic system is high
8. Republicans may overplay their hand, creating new openings for labor

Read full article here
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1. The economic forces fueling Trumpism also favor labor’s continued resurgence
2. Unions can still grow under Republican administrations
3. Labor has huge financial assets at its disposal
4. Unions remain popular and trusted
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We offer 8 positive factors that should ward off despair and encourage unions to invest more, not less, into organizing the unorganized... 2/

Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump Nobody should underestimate the importance of defending our movement against Trump’s looming attacks. But it’s not factually or tactically justified to dismiss the potential for labor advance over the...

Today @ericblanc.bsky.social and I co-published an article on why labor’s resurgence can continue. While Trump is preparing major attacks against labor, unions are actually well-positioned to continue their organizing and bargaining momentum. 1/
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Thanks. Could you add me? I write on labor for Jacobin, and do independent research on unions.

Meanwhile in Manitoba, Canada - a province up north somewhere - the NDP passed a ban on scab labor, and improved card check procedures for union representation. 👇

(I've visited Manitoba many times and it's fun year-round, even in the arctic cold)

Awesome, I’d love to be included. I write for Jacobin on labor, and my research is cited in many labor pubs as well.

I cannot wait to read this 👇👇👇

I made a Labor History Starter Pack - who did I miss?
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I wonder if Starbucks management breaks off the substantive bargaining with SBWU that's been going for abt a year?

Election result changes the incentives.

Why is Harris Lagging with Union Voters? The apparent decline in real wages is one compelling explanation

More at my stack of subs:
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Two Simple Lessons for Democrats to Win the Working Class A poll conducted of 1,000 Pennsylvania voters tested the strength of Kamala Harris’s messaging against Trump. The best and worst strategies to pick up voters were crystal clear.

Perhaps a more aggressive populist economic message by Harris would resonate with union workers who believe they are economically worse off under Biden than Trump. 4/
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There are many methods to calculate wages adjusted for inflation, but the BLS Employer Cost Index suggests that the perception by union voters is true: real wages of union workers declined under Biden, and went up under Trump. I was really surprised to see this. 3/

Why is Harris lagging with union voters? A poll of 7 swing states by Bloomberg/Morning Consult suggests one reason: union households believe they were financially better off under the Trump administration than they were under the Biden administration by an 11% margin. 2/

As the election mercifully draws to a close, I’ve been tracking the polls to see how Kamala Harris is doing with union voters in swing states and nationally (but take the polls with a big dash of salt on a margarita rim). 🧵 1/

Got this dubious mailer from the Democrat aligned “Center for Voting Information” threatening to out me to my neighbors if I don’t vote (I’m voting!). It appears vaguely official, and that why I opened it. Shame is not an effective GOTV tactic.

Union membership rebounds in BC, falls under Ontario’s laws Eliminating barriers has let union coverage recover to 31.5% in BC; Ontario’s laws have shrunk union coverage to 26.4%, just above Alberta.

Meanwhile in Canada, a country somewhere up north, union density is 31.5% in British Columbia, 26.4% in Ontario, 39.6% in Quebec…
I need to finally read @eidlin.bsky.social’s Class Idea in US & Canada

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Important article regardless of who wins in Nov 👇
"killing the 1935 National Labor Relations Act...would also mean the lifting of a host of restrictions on unions’ ability to carry out solidarity activism and effective economic sanctions. Are unions prepared for a return to ​“the law of the jungle?”