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Hyatt Hurts: Crossing the Picket Line Hurts Everyone
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/Hyatt-Hurts-Crossing-the-Picket-Line-Hurts-Everyone
09/24/2012
Jennifer Kauffman
Jennifer Kauffman is an AFL-CIO immigration policy and training associate. These are her thoughts on allies crossing the Hyatt picket line to attend the 2012 Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet (ONA).
Colleagues in the immigration advocacy and DREAM movement have wondered aloud whether journalist Jose Antonio Vargas crossing the picket line was such a bad thing, after all, since he drew the attention of more than 100 journalists to the plight of the Hyatt Hurts campaign workers.
The answer is simply this: Crossing a picket hurts EVERYONE.
At the heart of both the union movement and the immigrant movement is the sacred belief that we have to be united 100% of the time. Unity can’t be a part-time thing. Because once you make an exception here and there, our united front weakens and falls away. DREAMers know from personal experience that you win not by easy asks but by putting those in charge in uncomfortable, difficult positions.
FULL story at link.
