Late last Friday afternoon, Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, addressed workers at the Mercedes SUV plant in Vance, Alabama, after the…
In this interview, labor organizer, teacher and strategist Jane McAlevey turns the attention back to what YOU and all of us need…
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga,…
Two types of shutdowns hit the headlines this week. The first is a nightmarish repeat: A handful of right-wing radicals in Congress…
Strategic locations, key occupations, networked relationsāall bring workers power. āLabor Power and Strategyā offers an extended conversation among veteran organizers on how…
As a longtime labor organizer, scholar, and writer, Jane McAlevey has repeatedly articulated how mass numbers of workers can organize, negotiate, strike,…
The wave of unionization continues apace across the United States and elsewhere in the world, but thereās often much less attention paid…
A strike can force recognition of a union; a supermajority strike is powerful when bargaining; a strike with mass support can be a political weapon to change society
Under a capitalist system, the single most powerful thing workers can do is walk off the job and stop production
Advocacy and mobilizing are directed at people who support your cause. Organizing is a strategic plan to win over workers who donāt agree.
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