Like several successful campaigns before it, Step Up organizes workers to improve their jobs, but stops short of calling for a union. The approach, “premajority unionism,” is a natural fit for places like the South, with histories of public hostility to unions.
Jesse Baum
Jesse Baum is a freelance reporter covering the labor beat. She lives in New Orleans.
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