A Collective Bargain

McAlevey definitely has a particular point of view about unions and their role in society, which was very inspiring interesting to read about at length. I really appreciated the chapter on the UTLA teachers' strikes in LA in 2018 and the nurses unionizing drive in Philadelphia — good level of detail on organizing tactics and strategy. I think McAlevey's arguments about how critical unions are to democracy were underdeveloped, though. I also think her take on union avoidance in the tech industry is slightly off base.

And fact check: the Marriott in Oakland is on the 1200 block of Broadway, not 2200.