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Labor Rights & Civil Rights: One Intertwined Struggle for All Workers
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June 4, 2021 | WORKING PEOPLE | […] The core idea behind “civil rights” is that people should have the freedom to exist in political and social equality with one another. But underemployment, an individual worker has a starkly unequal relationship with their employer. For workers to exist in the workplace without forfeiting their civil rights, they must be able to bargain on equal footing with their employers—that is, they need to have the ability to organize into unions among themselves. In this sense the movement for securing labor rights is not separate from the movement for securing civil rights—it is a fulfillment of those goals… Economic Policy Institute
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