Public pensions hold more $6 trillion, money that billionaires are using to raise your rent, intensify the climate crisis, and fuel ICE deportations. Learn how you can take back control of your retirement savings and use your pension dollars to help your community.
Get strategic in using media coverage to amplify your campaign—learn where to place your story, understand what makes a pitch compelling to editors, and discuss steps you can take, beyond drafting press releases, to make sure your story gets across your message. Hear from journalists from The Real News Network, Workday Magazine, In These Times, and a retired reporter from the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Getting elected was the easy part—running the union brings a new set of challenges. Hear from experienced reformers about how to turn things around at your workplace, get members involved, and move a program. Learn what pitfalls to avoid and what steps are essential to leading effectively at your worksite and in your union.
Attacks from the Trump administration on queer and trans people—including blows to gender-affirming health care, education, and legal gender recognition—are intertwined with efforts to erase the existence of immigrants in the U.S. and dismantle federal agencies and social safety nets. Hear how LGBTQ+ workers are involving their unions in these fights, organizing to protect the rights and dignity not just of queer and trans community, but of others as well.
In Spain, the long and militant tradition of tenant unions is now being reshaped by the influence of bottom-up teacher union practices, and converging into a movement of workers resisting exploitation by landlords. In the U.S., solidarity organizing between teacher unions and tenant unions is also emerging. Both will be explored here.
