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

One of the greatest things about unions is that they are a tool that belongs to you. You! You may be an average person in an average place with an average job. You may not be rich or famous or influential or well-connected. But starting right at your unremarkable workplace, you can become part of something capable of exercising power beyond your wildest belief. You can do something historic. You can start a union. You can lead a strike. You can force enormous companies to listen; you can compel exalted politicians to bow to the demands of normal folks. Your labor is your weapon. It is your hammer. A better America is right there. It’s waiting for you, and for all of us, to act.