We honor Renee's memory and commemorate her courageous service to the working class.

The most powerful response to fascist violence has always been the might of organized workers committed to freedom.

Let us redouble our efforts to build unions fit for the task...and stay active on the streets!

Still, it's important to be clear that a solidarity union is a labor union backed by legal protections.

Employers, and sadly even some in the labor movement, who say otherwise are pushing a falsehood to try to create uncertainty in coworkers.

Now, none of this is to say that solidarity unions hang their hats on legal protection. We prevent retaliation through solidarity, strategy, and the energy to carry that strategy out. We seek to create conditions such that it would be irrational for the employer to fire anyone.

Section 7 protects the right to "self-organization" and to join "labor organizations"; to "bargain collectively"; to engage in "concerted activities" for "mutual aid or protection"

All of which applies to workers building solidarity unions

The legal protection to organize free of retaliation from the employer is found in Section 7 of the NLRA. Solidarity unions and their members have used it repeatedly successfully. Because there's no question that the protection applies to solidarity unionism.

Three laws define what a labor union is in the U.S. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), and the Internal Revenue Code. A solidarity union is categorically and indisputably a union under each one, just as much as a traditional union.

Myth 4: Solidarity unions are not legal unions and are not backed by legal protections

No doubt one of the biggest misconceptions about worker led-and-operated unionism

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Black workers at the iconic camera and film company worked in solidarity with organizers in South Africa to wrest the company away from the apartheid economy and society. And they succeeded!