Whether this action helped the 20,000 or so active UMWA members keep their jobs is uncertain, but it showed that to gain support, the environmental movement has to take labor into account.
One way to do that is to take labor’s issues seriously, and for environmentalists and other activists to work with labor before their support is needed. A coalition only works, of course, when all components believe they benefit.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Labor Primer:
Laboring for Health: Unions Leadership Role in Health Policy
Taking Health Care to the States and the Streets
Best Practices for the Long Haul
Worker Centers: Another Resource
The Soul of Labor History is the Story of Democracy
Appendices:
Article: Unions are from Mars, Community Groups are from Venus: Does that Mean We are All Aliens?