Book Forum Review – This Machine Kills Fascists: Jane McAlevey argues for the essential role of unions in a democracy

• February 1, 2020
• Posted in A Collective Bargain, Book Reviews, Class Struggle, Labor Movement, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

McAlevey… is an advocate for a particular type of union… “A commitment to democracy means breaking down the barriers—including directly confronting racism and sexism—that divide workers and weaken them in the fight for their common good…” 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

Can unions save democracy? Jim Cuddy speaks with Jane McAlevey: At a time when workers are under attack at  historic levels, strikes are making a comeback.

• January 30, 2020
• Posted in Interviews, Labor Movement, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

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. They also discuss her new book “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy.“ Read More

Majority Report with Sam Seder – Interview w/Jane McAlevey & Nomiki Konst: A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, & the Fight for Democracy

• January 21, 2020
• Posted in Interviews, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

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.  And Nomiki Konst joins Sam for the Fun Half. Read More

How Unions Can Still Win Big: An excerpt from A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

• January 12, 2020
• Posted in Labor Movement, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

There are only two sides, the owners and the rest of us. It’s October 20, 2018, and it’s louder than an orchestra or rock concert on the 2200 block of Broadway in downtown Oakland, California. Irma Perez is working her bullhorn like a trumpet virtuoso. She’s standing in the middle of hundreds of people who’ve made plastic buckets into drums, their hands holding perfect rhythm as they harmonize their chant: “Hey hey, ho ho—Mar-ri-ott has got to go!” Read More

The Assault On Workers Seventy Years In The Making: An excerpt from A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

• January 12, 2020
• Posted in Labor Movement, Organizing, Published work, Strikes, Unions

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. Liberals yearn nostalgically for a time when corporate leaders seemed more responsible, for an era when CEOs seemed to understand that employees, the people who make the profits, were considered more important than, if not equal to, the shareholders. Read More