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For decades, intractable social and economic problems have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. There is a single, obvious weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout US history: unions. Read More
The Bitchuation Room LIVE! is back with the smart, no BS union organizer Jane McAlevey. Francesca Fiorentini is joined by comic Nato Green to talk about Jane’s new book “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy” and how the left can get serious about taking economic power. Read More
We need many more labor organizers sharing the tools of their trade: A Collective Bargain, like the rest of McAlevey’s work, is indispensable. Read More
At a time when workers are under attack at historic levels, strikes are making a comeback. In that, Jane McAlevey sees an opportunity to reset power and politics in America, and clear a path to progressive change. Read More
Author and organizer Jane McAlevey joins Sam to discuss her new book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, on how workers must continue to fight with broad-based supermajorities across the working class. Read More
"A Collective Bargain"has been named a Publisher's Weekly Book of the Week Pick for January 5, 2020. Read More
Jane McAlevey's new book offers concrete tactics and practices for how workers can win more battles — and prepare for the larger wars to come. Read More
There are only two sides, the owners and the rest of us. (This is an excerpt from "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy") Read More
Workers who fought to build strong unions turned horrible jobs in the auto factories into the kind of employment that became the backbone of the American Dream. (This is an excerpt from "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy") Read More
A Collective Bargain receives a coveted “starred” review from PW, plus an author interview to add emphasis. It’s a sign of the times that major national reviewers are signaling to the world the importance of unions today. "Labor activist McAlevey delivers a persuasive argument that the power of “strong, democratic” trade unions can fix many of America’s social problems in this timely cri de coeur." Read More
"...How do we work with an international union while still maintaining our own independence and identity, and is door knocking a viable tool in our tool box, or could it be one of the shortcuts you warned us about?" Read More
The Democratic presidential field lined up to get their pictures taken with striking GM workers. But what workers really need from the Democratic Party is power, not photo ops. Read More
The excellent podcast, Citations Needed, hosted Jane for part of their new show on the word “middleclass.” They had an excellent discussion about how the word obscures people's understanding of class in America and is also used as a wedge issue to divide and conquer workers by skill when employers set out to break unions. Read More
