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Despite staggering wealth and income inequality, President Biden is bargaining against himself on his already way-too-small proposal to tax the rich, and far too many Democrats oppose the measure. While disappointing, that’s to be expected. Read More
Turning the Tables report illustrates the best practices for building the power to win in today’s challenging union climate. Read More
Organizing for Power (O4P) is a free online training and networking program for organizers worldwide. More than 10,000 workers from 6 continents and 70 countries have joined O4P trainings in the past 18 months. Workers Rising Everywhere is the fourth training in the O4P series led by labor organizer and educator Jane McAlevey, and hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Read More
Jane McAlevey discusses the rationale behind her Bessemer rebuttal, how union popularity should be matched with the right tools, and how these old and new organizing strategies can work in harmony toward building worker power that can win. Read More
In an interview with Doug Henwood of Jacobin, Jane discusses why the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) lose its fight against Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama. Read More
Brian and Jane discuss why unionization efforts failed at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, what it means for future organizing at Amazon facilities and how the PRO Act might impact the national labor movement. Read More
I appreciate @onthemedia for hosting this important conversation about the critical distinction between “didn’t win” and “can’t win” in Bessemer, Alabama. The conditions in this country are absurdly unfair. Of course it shouldn’t be so hard for workers to form a union. Read More
The NLRB announced the results of the vote on whether workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., would join a union. It’s bad news, but it doesn’t mean workers in future Amazon campaigns won’t or can’t win. They can. The results were not surprising, however, for reasons that have more to do with the approach used in the campaign itself more than any other factor. You can also listen to me discuss Bessemer on The Nation podcast. Read More
Pertinent to the vote by Amazon workers in Alabama, the workers at Smithfield struggle to unionize is a lesson for all. That almost no workers elsewhere know this story is a travesty. An excerpt from my No Shortcuts book, this chapter demonstrates how motivation and strategy may have more to do with failure and success across all sectors of workers than previously thought. Read More
There is a massive power play taking place right now, being led by some of the biggest titans of industry—particularly in Silicon Valley—who seek to avoid having to contribute to society at all by rewriting the legal status of their workers. Read More
Jane McAlevey recently sat down with Blue Tent to talk about the necessity of “good” relational organizing, why the most exciting union organizing is going on at the local level, why unions need to look beyond workplace issues, and how no one reads those mass email blasts that are supposedly from Michelle Obama. Read More
Unions need to expand their base if Democrats are to stand any real chance in the future; simultaneously, they need to provide deep political education, especially when the right wing and the Trump forces continue to mobilize. Read More
"Jane McAlevey has organized hundreds of thousands of workers on the frontlines of America’s labor movement... This conversation ran long, but it ran long because it was damn good." Read More
