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1. Bargaining over wages, working conditions, and benefits need not culminate in a contract. If the workers’ collective power is sufficient to avoid a formal agreement, they are better off without one. If they must sign one, it should not include a no-strike provision. And if the workers are not st…

An effective strategy for this kind of organization is to form committees in and out of workplaces. These committees would not be traditional unions. They would not immediately ask people to sign union cards in preparation for an NLRB representational election. Instead, they would start as discussi…

Some unions still hire intellectuals as functionaries of their political machine. They edit the newspaper, do administrative work, and sometimes serve as organizing and line staff. But since unions have renounced a transformative vision of social and political relations, they no longer see the nece…

this evaluation does not vitiate the need for these adaptive reforms

Genuine social movements arise when a social formation can no longer realize its aspirations for the good life in the prevailing system and are prepared to travel the arduous path of social transformation.1 Historically, movements that cease to expand and improve and under adverse economic and poli…