Labor’s Winning Weapon: Two Canadian unions show why the supermajority strike is the key to worker power

• November 22, 2022
• Posted in Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

The bus drivers, station attendants, maintenance crews, cleaners, and transit safety workers walked off the job in a strike that lasted four days with 100 percent unity. Not a single worker crossed the picket lines. The timing couldn’t have been better—and it wasn’t an accident. How workers prepare one another for strikes is crucial to their strength and success—the ATU members ratified a great contract last Thurs. Read More

The Next Steps For Union Organizing; How Lansing Chipotle Got A Union: The mass growth in organized labor action in the wake of the heightened tensions of 2020 is discussed.

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

Sam and Emma host Jane McAlevey, Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center, to discuss her recent video for The Nation “You Voted To Form A Union. Now What?” Then they are joined by T.J. Kitchen, Organizing Director for the Teamsters Joint Council #43, to discuss the recent organizing efforts at a Chipotle franchise in Lansing, Michigan. Read More

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

The state of unions in America » WDET 101.9 FM: Author and scholar Jane McAlevey talks concerning the state of the labor motion in 2022.

• April 28, 2022
• Posted in Elections, Interviews, Podcast, Strikes, Unions

Union membership has continued to say no in recent times after a long time of abrasion. However there have been some high-profile labor wins that would reverse the development. Listen here >> Read More

Jane McAlevey on Amazon Workers’ Next Big Battles and Margo Jefferson on “Constructing a Nervous System”: On this week's podcast, we discuss what the Amazon workers have to do next—and how they should do it.

• April 21, 2022
• Posted in Elections, Interviews, Podcast, Strikes, Unions

The Amazon workers on Staten Island have won a historic victory—but now they must prepare to strike, and to win support for their strike from the community power structure. Nation strikes correspondent Jane McAlevey explains why, and how. Listen here >> Or wherever you get your podcasts. Read More