The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

a top-down approach would lead to a hollow administrative shell with little actual member enthusiasm. That is often a tempting path for union bureaucrats, but it is how true labor power suffocates and dies. Arias is determined not to let that happen. “You have to have as many [people] as possible. They actually told me I was crazy. ‘A committee of thirty? Are you sure?’ Yes, I’m sure. It’s a big state! It’s a lot of counties.”