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/PRNewswire/ Amidst a global pandemic and ever-increasing worker inequality, the need to effectively organize and uplift worker voices towards better and.
/PRNewswire/ Amidst a global pandemic and ever-increasing worker inequality, the need to effectively organize and uplift worker voices towards better and.
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The Funding Dilemma
Unlike unions, worker centers canât be sustained by their membersâ dues. So survival is an ongoing challenge.
The art of financially sustaining a configuration of working people has bedeviled alt-labor organizations from the get-go. Even now, they remain locked in a careful, complicated dance with the foundations, unions, and individual donors who subsidize their work.
Mainstream unions were able to achieve economic independence due to a convergence of historical forces in the 1930s, which led to wide-scale collective bargaining in an era of relatively supportive governmental infrastructure; that, in turn, made it possible for unions to assess and collect dues from their members and establish robust funding for their ongoing work.