Reflections on the ALA Annual Conference: Unions & Fighting Harassment in Our Workplaces.

My first career was as a Union Organizer with National Nurses United. In states like Florida, where public sector unions are increasingly under attack, the future of the labor movement will need to be driven by unofficial unions and networks of workers that want to fight for change. Even though I am no longer staff with a union, I am an active volunteer of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) which provides advice and support to workers that are organizing in different types of industries across the United States. [Extracted from the article]