Time to get organized

The major unions should pony up a few dollars to underwrite a new organization, the Union of Unemployed Workers. The UUW would have two functions: to fight for the rights of and improved benefits for citizens who happen to be unemployed or underemployed; and to train a new generation of workers on the history of and reasons for labor organizations, so that eventually, when they return to fulltime employment in crappy jobs in the service sector, they'll be ready, willing and able to organize and join workplace unions.