Janitors win! And I’m wondering what it all comes down to. What does it mean when we say a campaign wins, when the workers are framed in pictures – hands up in jubilation, union leaders clapping still. I am still absorbing this victory and yet, I have my reservations about the US labor movement in terms of actually building worker power. But we’ll have to see what happens.
Responses to the tazing incident two weeks ago have multiplied. I’m involved with a few graduate student groups across the UCLA campus trying to re-frame the issue as one of police brutality and race and take some action so that these kinds of egregious abuses of power don’t happen again.
