Making the Moral Case for Unions

Michael Kazin, at The New Republic, writes about how a small union organizing effort at Georgetown University is succeeding in large part because it has made an explicitly moral case for its efforts. This moral argument has attracted many allies who might otherwise be uninterested were the union's case built solely around an argument for advancing the interests of its members. There is a lesson here for the broader progressive community: They need a moral argument, a narrative, if they want to win in the court of public opinion and, in the event, they have a good moral argument to make.