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- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
33 - Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
from Part VI - Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
- Advance Praise for The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Labor Law Is Out of Date
- Part III The “Fissured” Workplace
- Part IV Barriers to Forming a Collective Bargaining Relationship
- Part V Barriers to Bargaining a Good Contract
- Part VI Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
- 28 Can Labor Law Reform Encourage Robust Economic Democracy?
- 29 Union Security for the Twenty-First Century
- 30 Union Membership and the Ghent System
- 31 Principled Hope
- 32 Politically Engaged Unionism
- 33 Union Commitment to Racial Diversity
- 34 The Economics of Minimum Wage Regulations
- 35 The Role of Labor Research and Education in the Labor Movement of the Twenty-First Century
Summary
This chapter will address the need for more strategic actions by organized labor regarding matters of race given the increasing racial diversity in the make-up of unionized workplaces. There are challenges for unions when matters of racial justice pit union member versus union member. Nevertheless, this chapter asserts that union leadership must embrace the growing concerns of a racially diverse membership and the impact of recent social movements in highlighting societal concerns about race. Then union leadership can establish a new platform that approaches those concerns at the bargaining table by advocating creative contract terms that value workplace diversity, including dispute resolution tools within the grievance process that will promote worker solidarity on matters of both race and class. Finally, the chapter concludes by extolling the virtues of union-led efforts to seek racial justice in the workplace by joining with broader social movements as establishing key win-win consequences for workers of color and their unions.
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