Organizing
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Event: Energy From Unlikely Sources: Opportunities For New Organizing (10/12)
Fri, October 12, 2018 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036 RSVP HERE For more than a quarter century, workers and the U.S. labor movement have sustained significant setbacks, including the broad expansion of “right-to-work” conditions; the increasing use…
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Labor Notes Shares Vision for Organizing in Post-Janus America
Since the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME declared required agency fees for public sector unions unconstitutional, many in the labor world and media are scrambling to ask the question: Can labor unions bounce back after Janus? According to Labor Notes, the answer is yes — but it will require thought and a plan. The…
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Millennials and the Labor Movement that Refuses to Die
This post was originally featured at Mobilizing Ideas. By Ruth Milkman Two years ago I focused my ASA Presidential address on social movements led by Millennials, building on Karl Mannheim’s classic treatise on “The Problem of Generations.” As the first generation of “digital natives,” and the one most directly impacted by the economic precarity that emerged from the…
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Stephanie Luce Interviews Annelise Orleck for Jacobin
With Janus placing public sector unions on the chopping block while West Virginia teachers stage a wildcat strike for their rights, what’s the right way to feel about the future of labor? Is the picture as bleak as we’ve been made to think, or might there be glimmers of hope portending a brighter future ahead? Murphy…
