A union pipeline DSA built on college campuses
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
DSA's youth section trains students to organize on campus. What happens after graduation is its own story, one its own members describe directly.
"YDSA's job is to train socialists on campus and create a pipeline into DSA," Dare Cima, a University of Louisville YDSA member, said at the organization's national conference this spring. "We should be preparing members to enter strategic sectors of the labor movement after college. That means encouraging people to become teachers, nurses, engineers, logistics workers, and preparing them to organize in those fields."
More than 400 people attended that conference.
Gerica Noerdinger, cochair of YDSA's Youth Labor Committee, said more than 65 percent of them signed ple...