So you want to tax the rich in your state? Hear about successful campaigns in Massachusetts and Washington and campaigns-in-progress elsewhere. What does it take to win? What obstacles will you encounter?
Many of the country's biggest industries—from finance to tech to retail—remain almost entirely non-union. Hear from workers on the front lines of organizing unions and fighting for first contracts at Starbucks, Google, and Wells Fargo.
The Trump administration has set its sights on unions in the federal sector, tearing up contracts covering hundreds of thousands of workers in one of the single largest attacks on collective bargaining rights ever seen in the U.S. Hear about what those attacks have meant for federal workers and the services they provide, and about how they have been organizing in response.
When everything feels like it's falling apart, this book will be your lifeline. Drawing on 50 years of experience helping thousands of workers to navigate just about every imaginable organizing challenge, Ellen David Friedman has created a field guide to help you make sense of the everyday chaos and devise your next step in any situation. Hear from the author and four of the organizers featured, and nab your copy of our new book before it sells out!
Your boss isn’t using A.I. just to write emails. Hear from workers across industries about what happens when employers use A.I. to surveil, transform, and automate work, and learn how workers and unions are defending their dignity and autonomy.
Open bargaining isn’t a particular template or set of boxes to check. It’s more like an attitude towards democratic inclusion and power for rank-and-file members. We’ll hear from unions that have increased transparency and democracy in negotiations, along the spectrum of open bargaining, and discuss pitfalls that may occur as you close in on a tentative agreement.
Unions can advance democracy, especially in authoritarian times and places. To do so, the unions must act not just as organizations representing a narrow sector of workers but as social movements with much wider aspirations. Mass strikes, even general strikes, are now on the progressive agenda. Fom Milan to Minneapolis, and from Seoul to San Juan, hear how these strikes have been organized and made politically potent, and how they're reviving working-class institutions.
Nearly 1 million people in Minnesota joined a political strike January 23, demanding that ICE agents stop occupying their state. Tens of thousands turned out for May Day demonstrations across the country. And the United Auto Workers has put out a call for a May 1, 2028, national strike. The next leap is to prepare for open-ended and full workplace strikes, not one-day partial strikes, and to hit the big companies nationally rather than a handful of name-brands in one state. Hear how unions are building momentum towards contract alignments and possible large-scale strikes in 2028.
