Prof. Dau-Schmidt on his trip to the Education Workforce Committee

How he was shot at by the republicans on the Education Workforce Committee and they missed every shot. He points out that more workers in America want unions than Canada but Canada has higher density: this comes down to labor laws and why we need to fix them. He notes that the National Labor Relations Act explicated said it was signed to "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining." Unions were used as a way to get out of the great depression and they can still help today! He ends by thanking the workers for being in the room with him. We discuss how EFCA could have been signed and it's going to be A LONG TIME until we have that chance again. Never if we don't fight back.

He also reminds people that we ALL need to be fighting back. As a professor he's going to start doing more writing and that points out that we ALL have skills to organize. We might not see ourselves as someone who can organize our workplace, but we all can do something. If we aren't all doing something then we'll have nothing.