Helping other professions (esp. white collar ones) to unionize will increase support for unions.

[CrispyQ]

4. An excellent post!

Well thought out ideas. This is what we need! I would add a political component too & try to create a third party. Maybe that's what you meant when you said we have to go to bat for ourselves. Labor has been diminished so badly since Reagan. At one point, labor was a valued part of business, now it's just an expense on a spreadsheet. It's part of our moral decline as a nation - we value money more than people.

Have you considered starting a Facebook page & setting up a Twitter account? Since you mention unions as part of the core of the organization, have you talked with union members? There a huge amount of education involved. Anyone born after 1979 has only ever heard that unions are bad. One DUer posted, fairly recently, that his niece (?) who graduated from HS this year, does not know about unions. She was taught that the 'entrepreneurial spirit' is responsible for any benefits that labor has today. That doesn't even make sense, but they are re-writing history & the labor movement didn't happen in their version.