The workplace throws us together regardless of culture, race, gender, and language. We may have little in common besides the need to earn a livelihood. But working shoulder to shoulder, we generate a union culture. Hear how Amazon workers have gone about building a union culture in the early days.
In many union campaigns in Mexico, workers are up against not only the boss, but also their own unions. Learn how workers are fighting to build democratic and independent unions, despite threats and intimidation. Note: This panel will be conducted in Spanish, with interpretation into English.
En muchas campañas sindicales en México, los trabajadores no solo se enfrentan al patrón, sino también a sus propios sindicatos. Aprende cómo los trabajadores están luchando por construir sindicatos democráticos e independientes, a pesar de las amenazas y las represalias. Nota: Este panel se llevará a cabo en español, con interpretación al inglés.
As tariffs and trade threats destabilize the global supply chain, auto workers across the globe are taking on bold fights. Hear union activists from Brazil, Italy, Korea, and Mexico describe the struggles in this strategic sector and identify key points of leverage for holding auto giants to account.
Less than 10 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions. To build working-class power and raise standards, the labor movement needs to organize millions more workers. Hear how unions are stepping up to the plate, and learn how your union can do more new organizing.
Sometimes our unions feel like they need a "restart" button. Maybe members were used to more of a service model of leadership, or a tough fight has left your leadership in shambles. Hear from folks who have built up a strong, fighting local when it seemed unlikely.
Burnout—emotional, physical, or mental—is a fact of life for many of us in the labor movement, whether it's due to our jobs, our union activism, or both. Join us for a thoughtful and compassionate discussion of how we can address burnout on an individual and a group level, and how we can organize ourselves so that our work can be sustained.
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.
