Charles Johnson on a Victory For Free-Market Labor
(Coalition of Immokalee Workers)
Last week, the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced an astonishing breakthrough in an ongoing campaign to win wage increases for 80,000-100,000 seasonal laborers picking tomatoes for Florida farms. Even more surprising, writes Charles Johnson, C.I.W. announced that the concessions came from Walmart, in a negotiated, government-free agreement with one of the more die-hard enemies of union contracts in corporate America. It's all part of the growing alt-labor movement, which revives the tradition of libertarian methods of voluntary association, nonviolent activism, and social solidarity to create a more vigorous, less domesticated labor movement.