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The labor movement has many great organizer/writers, but few can match the incredible Jane McAlevey, who died of cancer last summer (rest in power). In her classic *A Collective Bargain*, McAlevey describes her organizer training, from a tradition that went back to the days before the National Labor Relations Act:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/McAlevey was very clear that labor law owes its existence to union power, not the other way around.
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