labor movement Archives - Jane McAlevey

Writers & SAG members demonstrating

Labor Unions Latest -The Brian Lehrer Show: Jane McAlevey talks about labor news, including the latest on the WGA and SAG AFTRA strikes and the UAW negotiations, and the overall state of organized labor today.

Jane McAlevey, organizer, senior policy fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, columnist at The Nation and co-author of Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), talks about labor news, including the latest on the WGA and SAG AFTRA strikes and the UAW negotiations, and the overall state of organized labor today. Read More

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The NLRB’s Recent Decisions Are Good News for Workers: But while both are worth celebrating, there are still no shortcuts to the hard organizing work needed to win life-changing contracts.

It’s important to take the right lessons from this dynamic moment: The hard work of building durable worker power and organization can’t ease up just because it seems like, officially, it should be getting easier. The hard work of building durable worker power and organization can’t ease up just because it seems like, officially, it should be getting easier. Read More

Labor protests in LA

How workers can demand — and win — more: Shun gag orders and seek transparency, labor organizer Jane McAlevey says.

LA Times interview with Jane about how workers can win more–focusing on lessons from Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations, her new book, written with with Abby Lawlor. Read the interview here >> Read More

UPS Teamsters preparing to strike

The Teamsters’ Proposed Agreement With UPS Is a Great Victory by and for the Workers: How can we move from clawing back losses into actually changing the terms of the game in workers’ favor?

In an era of growing acceptance of racist demagogues—if not outright creeping fascism—strategy for working-class institutions has to give equal weight to strategic political education as it does to winning material gains. The two go together. The material wins in this UPS contract will be life-changing for many workers—a tremendous achievement, and nothing to diminish. Read More