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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
"A Collective Bargain"has been named a Publisher's Weekly Book of the Week Pick for January 5, 2020. Read More
McAlevey will be joined in conversation with UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl. The recent UTLA strike is highlighted in her new book. 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
The strikes that spread from Chicago across the nation are happening because energetic, smart rank-and-file workers are finally taking back their own organizations—their unions—after too many years of risk-averse leaders whose unwillingness to use the strike weapon contributed to the downfall of the working class. Read More
