At this time some of labors best victories have occurred outside the protections of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Some labor organizations, like the National Domestic Workers Alliance or workers centers are achieving wins through activism without identifying as union at all. Farm workers have also had success by working, pressuring, and sometimes boycotting.
This sounds a lot like the old IWW Wobblies, who would not engage in labor contracts, because like the Service Employees International Union’s contract which ties their hands and prevents them from doing a secondary boycotts.
The NLRB, at this time, is a deterrent to labor rather than a help. If the employers have a way to quash an organizing campaign they do not care if they break the NLRB laws because the win versus the imposed fine is no deterrent to the corporations. The NLRB laws need to be rewritten or done away with.
Major unions have abandoned government-run elections in favor of comprehensive attack that leverages some combination of workers, public, media and political pressure to extract agreements from companies by blocking tracks/roads, spilling grain and defying a restraining order. We can see where this is going.
If the NLRB laws are not tightened up to serve the workers and make labor elections fair right now then anarchy will prevail. A member of the NLRB, Terrence Flynn, a Republican, was forced to resign for ethics violations, such as leaking inside information and revealing confidential details to two former board members, one of whom was a former labor adviser to the GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. This proves the GOP tentacles are far reaching. The GOP anti-workers are eating their seed corn and if labor leaves legal contracts for other means of satisfaction it will not be good for the economy and labor will have no choice for we need to feed and protect our families.
In 2026 unions worldwide must educate and expand their memberships or face certain death. We need to educate our workers to understand that the republican party does not care about, does not deserve their support or votes and only cares about the billionaires. The GOP is their enemy and not their friends. The GOP and billionaires are the workers’ enemy. They want the workers’ sweat and blood for as cheap as they can get it. These greedy people and their insatiable appetite for more leaving us with much less will not stop until we’re forced to work for scraps and fighting each other for the pittance. They will not invite you to golf with them or go hunting or to dinner with them. In fact, they are always in pursuit of ways to destroy our unions and the way of life we’ve obtain by being union. One way they are doing this is to use the court system, especially the lop-sided Supreme Court, to take away our union rights and to get more states to vote for The Right to Work, which leaves work...
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