A free panel featuring Jane McAlevey, the author of No Shortcuts, in conversation with members of the New Yorker and Ars Technica Unions, on organizing tactics that workers use to build power in the workplace Moderated by Susan DeCarava, President of the NewsGuild of New York Presented by the unionized workers of Condé Nast, members […]
Turning the Tables: Participation and Power in Negotiations, forthcoming from Jane McAlevey, Abby Lawlor, and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, illustrates best practices for building the power to win in today’s challenging union climate. The report features a series of case studies in collective bargaining during the four years under Trump. They cover four key […]
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Sign up now in Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish. "Progressives have plenty of good ideas. The issue is that we win too few campaigns because we lack the power required. Organizing, at its core, is about building the power to win"– Jane McAlevey. Organizing for […]
What can any of us, especially college students, do to make an impact on climate change—a worldwide issue that grows more intense with every new hurricane and fire? "Radical Implications: Facing a Planetary Emergency," the 2021 Clifford Symposium at Middlebury College from September 23 to 25, will bring together a host of climate experts, as […]
Structured Organizing Conversations For O4P Graduates A two-part booster course on structured organizing Online webinar series – two Tuesdays Each date will feature two sessions for our global audience, each starting at the same time as its sister session from our most recent core training, Workers Rising Everywhere. Start times, as converted to your local […]
The New York Labor History Association invites you to attend the 35th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards Virtual Reception NYLHA’s only fundraiser of the year supports a wealth of terrific free programming about labor and workers. This year we honor organizer, author and scholar Jane McAlevey and labor educator extraordinaire Robert Wechsler. They do […]
What Winning Looks Like In this new Organizing for Power series, we look at successful organizing drives and, in conversation with the workers and organizers who led them, get to the heart of what made these campaigns work. For this pilot episode, we meet with workers from the Charité and Vivantes hospital systems in Berlin, […]
How unions negotiate is a strategic choice. Seldom do union members experience the actual process of collective negotiations over issues that are crucial, urgent, and relevant to their own lives. The purpose of this free study group is to discuss how negotiations can be different—very different—from what has become the norm. Our hope is […]