What do you stand for?
As teachers across the United States have shown recently, mass strikes are the key to winning progressive victories in the Trump era
Jane McAlevey
Jane F. McAlevey is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. Since June 2019, McAlevey is a Senior Policy Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center. She was also named Strikes correspondent for The Nation magazine. McAlevey has written three books about power and strategy and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso Books, 2012), and her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, which was published by Ecco Press in January 2020.
Teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years
In the Age of Trump and “Janus v. AFSCME,” Labor Must Rethink Its Organizing Strategies
There’s enough wealth in this country to allow the rich to be rich and still eradicate most barriers to a genuine women’s liberation, which starts with economic justice in the workplace
when women have a union, and if the issue is abuse of some kind on the continuum of sexual harassment, whether that’s—by the way—disparate pay going on in the workplace, or whether its actual sexual harassment, you don’t have to walk in alone.
It’s going to take a massive expansion of unions again before we can translate #MeToo into a demand that raises all workers’ expectations that this country can be a far more equal society
Fight for 15, labor’s crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
Fairfield County, Connecticut, was a region where Fortune 500 companies held absolute political power. They’d convinced the population to be thankful to…
Below is the response to a review by Steve Early of Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting For the Labor…