The author and labor organizer takes us on a tour through the most "progressive" of current US labor unions to see how they function in the growing fast-food industry. After that, he contrasts the latter with a radical type of union organizing.
Imagine if a fast food worker union advanced a vision not just of better-paying work in a fundamentally inhumane economy, but for a worker-controlled food system operated in the interests of all of humanity and the earth? Such a turn is unlikely while the campaign narrative is dictated by union bureaucrats who see themselves not as capitalism’s gravediggers, but its doctors.