Rail Workers, Nurses, Teachers Are Fighting From the Bottom Up: When will their supposed national leaders—in unions, and in the Democratic Party—get serious?

• September 16, 2022
• Posted in Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

As with the moment last year dubbed “Striketober,” promises of massive labor action by national unions didn’t live up to the hoopla, with the few real wins coming out of bold moves taken by rank-and-file workers. It’s high time to reframe the expectations American workers should have for our quality of life, the quality of our national union leadership, and the Democratic Party. Read More

You Voted To Form a Union. Now What? (video): Jane McAlevey explains 3 core principles that can help workers win better contracts, faster.

• September 2, 2022
• Posted in Labor Movement, Strikes, The Nation, Unions, Video

You won your vote to start a union.. Now comes the hard part. Negotiations aren’t easy. A year after workers vote to unionize, more than half still don’t have a contract. After a year without a contract, management can push to legally dissolve a hard-won union. Reaching a good contract matters—so how do we get there? Read More

How Workers Can Win in 2022: They need to create a crisis in order to turn this country around.

• December 25, 2021
• Posted in Class Struggle, Elections, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

Our new Gilded Age of obscene wealth and arrogance stands in stark contrast to the everyday struggles faced by tens of millions of exhausted workers fighting just to stay healthy and alive, avoid eviction, make the next month’s rent payment, or find the kind of job that will leave enough free time to help their children with homework. Read More

In Berlin, Overworked Hospital Staff Went on Strike for a Month — and Won: Medics launched a month long strike that forced hospital management to guarantee minimum staffing levels

• December 22, 2021
• Posted in Jacobin, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, Training, Unions

The particular conversational technique that worked so well is part of Jane McAlevey’s tool kit for building mass-participation strikes, developed by drawing on the tactics of the radical Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions of 1930s America. Read the article >> Read More

Strike Support: What Is It and How You Can Help Striking Workers: Jane McAlevey says there are so many ways to help!

• December 13, 2021
• Posted in Class Struggle, Interviews, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes

Jane McAlevey discusses some strike history and lists 5 important actions anyone can do to help strikers. Read the article >> Read More