The working class knows what’s up, often better than the capitalist class, or even mid-management, but I wouldn’t run with the term “the wisdom of the crowd,” which I think is a popsci/Freakonomics sort of thing: at best over-applied and at worst pseudoscience.
And anyway, labor action isn’t even about “right” or “wrong,” “good” or “bad”: it’s about power. Whether teacher strikes help, harm, or have no effect on students is really beside the point. They shouldn’t have to make excuses for it.
There are people out there who are persuadable but currently buy the Republican anti union bullshit, though. For better or worse, one way to crack through that wall is to point out the ways that unions and collective action like strikes leads to better outcomes for every worker (not only union members), and every worker’s child.
I’m aware there’s some pseudo science danger, but if the membership is informed and can vote their conscience individually, I’m sure they’d do better than not most every time. Obviously if there’s a pressure campaign or film flam man at the top lying or misleading it can all go to shit.
The working class knows what’s up, often better than the capitalist class, or even mid-management, but I wouldn’t run with the term “the wisdom of the crowd,” which I think is a popsci/Freakonomics sort of thing: at best over-applied and at worst pseudoscience.
And anyway, labor action isn’t even about “right” or “wrong,” “good” or “bad”: it’s about power. Whether teacher strikes help, harm, or have no effect on students is really beside the point. They shouldn’t have to make excuses for it.
I agree that they shouldn’t have to make excuses.
There are people out there who are persuadable but currently buy the Republican anti union bullshit, though. For better or worse, one way to crack through that wall is to point out the ways that unions and collective action like strikes leads to better outcomes for every worker (not only union members), and every worker’s child.
I’m aware there’s some pseudo science danger, but if the membership is informed and can vote their conscience individually, I’m sure they’d do better than not most every time. Obviously if there’s a pressure campaign or film flam man at the top lying or misleading it can all go to shit.