Saying that the labor movement’s focus on electoral politics, while yielding occasional success at the ballot box, has not translated into success for America’s working people, a resolution passed by SCFL delegates at their August 16 meeting went on to state: “If workers are to have any control over their lives, they must take control directly, educated and confident in the means to do so and united in their cause.”
SCFL delegates called on the labor movement at all levels to invest in labor education and organizing an amount equivalent to no less than 30 percent of the funds expended on electoral politics, so that workers may learn to take direct actions in their own defense and advance the interests of the labor movement at large. Read the full resolution here.
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