Javier Morillo spent 14 years as president of Service Employees International Union Local 26 in Minnesota. The union represents janitors, security officers, airport workers, window washers and others in the property services industry. Morillo is now a fellow at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about the economy and workforce after COVID-19, as well as changes labor needs to overcome.
“I think today the AFL-CIO and the labor movement, generally, is still organized along the lines of an economy that no longer exists,” Morillo said.
The challenge facing the labor movement today, and in the last decades, has been to adjust to an economy that doesn’t depend on industrial jobs, but temporary workers. This becomes more complicated when trying to organize workplaces.
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