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Profile of a Modern Worker: Rubynell Walker-Barbee: “Make Them Do It” Profile of a Modern Worker: Rubynell Walker-Barbee: “Make Them Do It”
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4 Worth Fighting For: Collective Bargaining in the Workplace
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Published:April 2022
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This chapter articulates why collective bargaining in the workplace is worth the fight. It introduces worker leaders, such as Rubynell Walker-Barbee from Detroit who was shocked to find that her co-workers in Atlanta were unaware of their right to form a union. The chapter focuses on some of the battlefields of the movement, putting emphasis on improving the chances of expanding collective bargaining beyond the workplace. The chapter reviews how some specific failures by organized labor have made unions and the people they represent vulnerable to new kinds of attacks by entrenched power and how a renewed willingness by workers make use of their most powerful defensive tools, such as walk-outs, wildcat strikes, and other direct actions. The chapter highlights the continuous trend toward increased labor activism, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exposed existing repression and angered more workers to take action in defense of their livelihoods and their lives.
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