Interchange – The Right to Dignity: Service Sector Workers and the Future of Unions

Published: Aug. 18, 2015, 11:31 p.m.

Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path…As one Indiana-based organizer …