Why Americans need portable benefits, what those benefits should look like, and how those benefits can be created and funded
David Rolf
David Rolf is president of an SEIU local in Seattle and an architect of SEIU’s home care worker and the first successful $15 minimum-wage organizing campaigns. He is the author of The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America.
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Toward a 21st-Century Labor Movement
The old model of collective bargaining can’t be resurrected. Herewith, some new models of how workers can win and wield power.
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Alternative Futures for Labor
This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. The crisis facing workers in the United States began decades before 2007’s recession, and that crisis is inextricably linked to the decline of the labor movement. America’s workers are the world’s most productive. […]