Organizing for Power: Structured Organizing Conversations (for O4P graduates only)
A two-part booster course on structured organizing. Each date will feature two sessions for our global audience. Read More
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A two-part booster course on structured organizing. Each date will feature two sessions for our global audience. Read More
Ian Masters and Jane McAlevey discuss the uptick in strikes across the country taking place with 176 launched this year so far. Read More
Jane’s organising method, grounded in decades of experience, mentorship, and the battles of many movements across US history, is that workers and people need to lead their own change. Read More
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