Our union organizing committee is split about whether to endorse political candidates this election cycle and it's getting personal in ways that are making it hard to focus on workplace issues. Some of us think electoral politics is a distraction from labor organizing and others think we can't separate workplace power from political power, and now people are questioning each other's commitment to the union itself.
More people experience this than they realize.
Different theories about how change happens can transform tactical disagreements into questions of fundamental loyalty.
“Where Are You with The examined political life?”
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