Hyatt to pay ousted workers $1m in boycott-ending deal

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1. Great news. Takeaway #1: boycotts WORK.

Takeaway #2: Unions are essential for many reasons.

Everyone knows that unions fought, and still do, for safe working conditions in mines, factories, etc. That fight gave us things like OSHA. Some of us this might never have been born but for that fight, because our ancestor might have died unnecessarily because of an unsafe workplace.

And everyone knows that unions fought for a living wage. Some us or our ancestors might have had to quit school at 16 to help parents put food on the table, but for unions.

And so on. You get the picture. But, unions are always ways for us to spread the word.

The right spreads the word for its activism through organizations like churches, youth groups, Scouting, etc.

We used to spread the word through unions, as is done in Europe. But, then, we allowed union busting laws and actions.

Please, please support unions so they can support us.