No Kings in the Union Hall: Big Labor, Member Sovereignty, and the Betrayal of the Rank and File

. A union that centralizes information, manages dissent, treats members as turnout assets, or converts dues into institutional fog begins to imitate the managerial class it was built to oppose. The cure is not weaker unions. The cure is a labor movement so democratic, transparent, member-led, and materially accountable that workers can once again say, without irony: this is ours.