Teachers from across Kentucky gather outside the state Capitol to rally for increased funding and to protest changes to their state funded pension system, Monday, April 2, 2018, in Frankfort, Ky.

The Case for Unions

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 25, 2018

Jane McAlevey, labor and environmental organizer, post doctoral fellow in the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the author of (now in paperback) No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), argues that progressives need more of the hard work of organizing mass movements to be effective and talks about recent labor actions in Las Vegas and by red-state teachers.

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