Grocery and meatpacking workers across the U.S. are fighting for stronger contracts, organizing new unions, and defeating corporate mergers. We'll discuss the opportunities and challenges of organizing in these sectors, and how worker coordination across the food supply chain can help beat the boss.
Ever since workers in the U.S. started forming unions, we've had to overcome mistrust between groups and get co-workers with different cultures and languages working together. Hear how workers are making solidarity the norm—and building astonishing collective power—in a Kroger grocery warehouse, on a Minnesota university campus, at Amazon, and in food delivery on the streets of New York City. This panel will inspire you!
The South has long stood out as nearly impenetrable for labor, but the Auto Workers have been organizing for decades to breach these anti-union fortresses of exploitation. Hear from auto workers about their efforts to build a union at Mercedes, Toyota, Hyundai, and Subaru plants.
The engine of any contract campaign is a member-to-member communication and organizing network that reaches the entire workforce. Panelists will take us through the steps of how they built and activated Contract Action Teams and used that power to win.
Under a "guestworker" temporary immigration program, your ability to work is tied to your employer, granting the boss extreme control and significantly raising the stakes of an organizing campaign. Learn how workers are fighting against this abusive system through litigation and cross-border organizing.
It's critical that jobs in the clean energy sector become high-quality, union jobs. Unions are beginning to make this happen in two ways: legislative campaigns and industrial policy from the top, and new organizing from below. Come learn about the development of clean energy industries and how unions are taking advantage of opportunities to organize.
Free trade deals have been a disaster for working people. Without a progressive, worker-centered vision for trade policy, Trump’s chaotic and corrupt approach to tariffs and trade will be the only game in town. Join us to discuss building a trade agenda that strengthens unions, fights corporate power, and offers a fair deal to working people around the world.
How do you build power and solidarity on the job when workers are scattered and working from home? Hear how the panelists have overcome the obstacles of distance and isolation to organize their shops.
