Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!
In honor of the public sector workers of Wisconsin and their struggle to maintain their human right to organize, I'm re-posting The Realignment Project's three-part series in defense of public sector unionism over the next three days:
- in part one, we learn some of the background of why even some progressives are uncomfortable with the idea of public sector unions, and why all progressives should support the right of public workers to unionize. - in part two, we examine the statistical illusion of the "public sector premium," and learn how the difference between public and private sector pay is actually the difference between union and non-union. - in part three, we move from a purely defensive standpoint to begin articulating a new vision for how public sector unions can be brought into the center of progressive government.