Labor Education Starts in School
znetwork.org
American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7090069

Even when workers are well-informed about what they deserve from employers, they don’t have the power to do much more than resign and look for another job. What gives AB 800 teeth is that it specifically requires K-12 students to be educated, “on their right to join or organize a union at their workplace.”

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    It was a subject we went over in social studies once or twice in Maryland. It often goes through one ear and out the other and its hard for a school to impress on students just how many rights they lost with some of the anti wildcat/secondary action legislation.

    Workers have much more power than even their supposed “rights” give them, and if they start realizing again just how scared shitless the status quo is of them flexing them they’d have a lot more power.