We, as workers, are both the first and the last defense. We must go beyond our walls. Nothing has been more damaging to the labor movement than its parochialism. We have to look to community, environmental, women's, and other groups for solidarity and cooperative action. We have to communicate that strong unions mean strong communities.
Good wages mean strong economies.
Increased power on the local level means the ability to protect local interests. We must go beyond the law. When the laws don't serve our interests we must challenge those laws. An unwillingness to do this flies in the face of history. The civil rights movement, the history of our own movement began with active resistance to those laws that were unjust.