But the trade union movement's weak public relations outreach is puzzling. In this age of streaming video, where is Labor's television station, or even nation-wide radio programs? Where are the academy-award nominated documentaries about labor's pivotal contributions to American society? How about some public service ads educating people about union contributions to social and economic progress in America?
It's no longer enough have labor leaders do guest spots on news programs and talk shows. a much more aggressively pro-active p.r. and educational effort is needed. That commitment, coupled with an effort to modernize union recruitment and membership could help insure that sleazy politicians like Walker never get the chance to do their worst.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wisconsin as a Good Thing | Democratic Strategist
Wisconsin as a Good Thing | Democratic Strategist
A "Democratic Strategist" is advising someone about public relations?
ReplyDeleteWhat this guy fails to understand is that nothing replaces the one on one organizing conversation.
ReplyDeletedr, I don't disagree with you, but at the same time, I'm not sure how that's relevant here. He's talking about pr, which is sort of by definition one to many. It goes along with the organizing conversation, not in place of it, right?
ReplyDeleteDennis -- Was making fun of that part of organizing model culture that treats the conversation as a hammer and everything as a nail.
ReplyDeleteWhoops. My bad =)
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