The Truth About Union Organizing: It's Much Better Than You Think

http://www.alternet.org/labor/truth-about-union-organizing-its-much-better-you-think

The union movement is 3.5 million members smaller than 40 years ago, and the forces that brought that about are as energetically engaged and powerful as they have ever been.

From that undeniable fact, it has been wrongly concluded:

Union organizing is impossible, futile, or a thing of the past

The labor movement is dead, or dying

The best hope for workers is through something different from trade unions and collective bargaining.

These conclusions are very disconcerting to this organizer. I am upset that there’s so little acknowledgement of the millions of workers who have risked much to try to unionize. Thousands are doing it today.

And so little acknowledgement of those who have done it and succeeded. They number a million and a half.