Educators everywhere are facing the pain of savage austerity, government coercion, and attempts to repress union militancy. But bottom-up resistance and resilience are also everywhere. From a massive strike this March by teachers across Catalonia, Spain, to "little fires everywhere" in the UK, to resistance against Trump-like demagoguery in Alberta, Canada, the stories will teach and inspire.
Join postal workers from all four U.S. postal unions, and abroad, to talk about how we’re organizing to breathe life into our unions and save the public postal service.
Saturday June 13, 2026 11:05am - 12:35pm CDT Florence
Hear how Puerto Rico’s working class is organizing in the face of authoritarianism to combat austerity and budget cuts that have made life more difficult. From the Trump administration’s repression and hateful rhetoric to the colonial trajectory of the Fiscal Control Board over the past 10 years, we’ll examine the various arenas where unionists have fought back, including struggles to overturn budget cuts, uphold sexual and reproductive rights, and defend migrants, and how we’ve built coalitions with feminists and environmentalists to fight for a better world.
Labor movement membership is at 10% of the workforce and shrinking nearly every year. Unions do a good job of winning NLRB elections, but not nearly at the scale we need to grow. We need more ways to organize and reach the millions of workers who want to join a union. One way is where workers without official recognition and a contract form a union and fight for improvements on the job - what EWOC calls Pre-Majority unions. This form of organizing is available to any group of workers now—whether they can't get legal union recognition, or they feel that winning an election may be years away, or they don't necessarily want a contract, but simply want to organize for immediate improvements. Panelists from several pre-majority unions will discuss challenges and successes in their campaigns.
