SFLC Blog
Unions an Integral Part of Dr. King’s Dream
If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?”
Overhaul US labor laws to boost workers’ power, new report urges
More than 70 scholars, union leaders, economists and activists says unions are key to tackling the crisis of economic inequality.
Turning perceptions around: How California’s unions changed Californians’ minds about unions
Though opinion polls show the strongest favorability ratings for unions in years, those ratings – at least among those polled – have bounced up and down for decades.
