Eric Blanc > Quotes

“Inequality soars when organized labor is weak, because unions are ordinary people’s main tool to counter corporate greed.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

“In a society where people are conditioned to quietly obey bosses—and at a moment in history marked by pervasive hopelessness—joining together with your coworkers to fight back can be an ecstatic, liberating experience.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

“My argument is simple: a new unionization model is necessary because the only way to build power at scale is by relying less on paid full-timers and more on workers.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

“Corporations remain very powerful, labor law remains very broken, and most unions remain very complacent.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

“A major limitation of most progressive efforts from the 1980s onwards is that they’ve either been well-rooted but small, or poorly rooted and big. Think of a nonprofit you know that provides important services to low-income communities (small but deep) or a huge march you attended that had no follow-up (wide but thin). Both are helpful, but neither can win the types of changes our country so urgently needs.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big

“With most unions doing relatively little to reach the unorganized, workers have stepped up to organize themselves.”
― Eric Blanc, We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big