Chris Bohner
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Chris Bohner
@radishresearch.bsky.social
Research-tivist with stops @ IBT, UNITE HERE, Culinary 226, AFL-CIO, worker centers, and 50/50 Climate Project
Thank's very much for for the rec's, excited to read these.
November 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Thanks!
November 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
5. Organized labor is reforming
6. Young worker activism is not going away
7. The (latent) power of unions to disrupt the political and economic system is high
8. Republicans may overplay their hand, creating new openings for labor

Read full article here
jacobin.com/2024/11/labo...
Labor’s Resurgence Can Continue Despite Trump
Donald Trump will do his best to undermine unions. But the labor movement still has momentum on its side and numerous opportunities to seize. Trump’s presidency has to be a time for labor action, not ...
jacobin.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
1. The economic forces fueling Trumpism also favor labor’s continued resurgence
2. Unions can still grow under Republican administrations
3. Labor has huge financial assets at its disposal
4. Unions remain popular and trusted
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November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
We offer 8 positive factors that should ward off despair and encourage unions to invest more, not less, into organizing the unorganized... 2/
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Thanks. Could you add me? I write on labor for Jacobin, and do independent research on unions.
November 16, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Awesome, I’d love to be included. I write for Jacobin on labor, and my research is cited in many labor pubs as well.
November 13, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Perhaps a more aggressive populist economic message by Harris would resonate with union workers who believe they are economically worse off under Biden than Trump. 4/
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Two Simple Lessons for Democrats to Win the Working Class
A poll conducted of 1,000 Pennsylvania voters tested the strength of Kamala Harris’s messaging against Trump. The best and worst strategies to pick up voters were crystal clear.
www.thenation.com
November 1, 2024 at 7:35 PM
There are many methods to calculate wages adjusted for inflation, but the BLS Employer Cost Index suggests that the perception by union voters is true: real wages of union workers declined under Biden, and went up under Trump. I was really surprised to see this. 3/
November 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM