Our worsening national health care crisis is bankrupting workers, impeding bargaining, draining union funds, and causing misery for the entire working class. So unions have to be fighting on two fronts: to win good health insurance in our contracts, and to upend corporate control of health care. Learn how to put the boss on defense in bargaining while simultaneously building the capacity of members to fight for single-payer universal health care (Medicare for All).
Hear how one union has built out its member education and development program. The NewsGuild has grown by 50 percent in the last decade, which required it to bargain dozens of new contracts, train hundreds of new stewards, and support even more organizing committees at new workplaces. Hear how The NewsGuild is trying to solve the “not enough staff capacity” problem by training members to do the work of the union.
