There are only two sides, the owners and the rest of us. It’s no accident that the cities and counties with the strongest union presence have consistently voted in favor of progressive policies.| Jane McAlevey
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Rules To Win By is a tried-and-tested guidebook on participatory social change from a leading organizer and advisor to countless unions around the world.| Jane McAlevey
Part memoir, part social history, Stories from campaigns she’s won to argue that unions must make connections to communities & social justice campaigns if they’re going to renew themselves and transform the economy.| Jane McAlevey
A rousing and electrifying call to arms, A Collective Bargain shows us why we must strengthen and defend the only force capable of fighting back against social injustice and the alarming right-wing shift in our politics: a strong, democratic union movement.| Jane McAlevey
Analyzes recent failures of unions; specifies recommendations on how to rebuild them, and lays out a way forward for the progressive movement.| Jane McAlevey
DISSENT magazine gathered their favorite thinkers on labor and unions for a live recording of their 212th episode. With the help of Jane McAlevey, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Rebecca Dixon, they look back on 2020, a tumultuous year for workers. The post How the Pandemic Changed Our Working Lives appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
Workers who fought to build strong unions turned horrible jobs in the auto factories into the kind of employment that became the backbone of the American Dream. Liberals yearn nostalgically for a time when corporate leaders seemed more responsible, for an era when CEOs seemed to understand that employees, the people who make the profits, were considered more important than, if not equal to, the shareholders. The post The Assault On Workers Seventy Years In The Making appeared first on Jane Mc...| Jane McAlevey
The Centre for Social Justice, Global Labour Research Centre at York University, Socialist Project, York University Departments of Geography, Social Science, Political Science cohosted me for a book launch on December 1st at the Steelworkers Hall in Toronto. The talk was moderated by Mark Thomas of the Global Labour Research Center, with discussants Stephanie Ross, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University and Michal Rozworski, OCUFA, and blogs at Political Eh-conomy. The post Toronto, Ca...| Jane McAlevey
In early December, I headed to Canada to give a talk to thousands of teachers who are all members of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto, the biggest union of teachers in the Ontario Province. I’ve been working with this union for over a year on how to build a more high participation union. The post Keynote Speech to Thousands of Toronto (Canada) Teachers appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
“Jane McAlevey is a deeply experienced, uncommonly reflective organizer. In NO SHORTCUTS, McAlevey stresses the distinction between mobilizing and organizing and examines how systematic conflation of the two has reflected and reinforced the labor movement’s decline over recent decades. More than a how-to manual for organizers, NO SHORTCUTS is a serious, grounded rumination on building working-class power. The post Early Praise for My New Book appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
In August, I was in Canada twice to work with two different unions, each of whom was laser focused on how to end the regime of Canada’s seriously rightwing Prime Minister, Steven Harper. Though few imagine life will be easy for climate campaigners, working people and more under the new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, sending Harper and his party packing was a really good start to restoring Canada to, well, Canada. The post Go, Canada, Go! appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
I gave one of several keynote speeches at Alberta, Canada’s premier progressive policy and research operation, called the Parkland Institute. I zero in on the different between mobilizing and organizing in this talk and discuss how we will only be able to build sufficient power to challenge the elites when we return to deep organizing. The post Keynote Speech, The Parkland Institute appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
Siobhan is a terrific Irish activist and she did a great job asking me questions that relate to the current struggles in Ireland, including the growing anti-austerity movement, the great Irish water privatization protests, and more. The post An Interview with a leading activist in Ireland, Siobhan O’Donoghue, Trinity College appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
This is a four part interview that was filmed in Toronto, Canada during late February, 2014. The interview was conducted in the local Steelworkers Hall and sponsored by the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly, a smart group of trade unionists who meet together in a class-based, community rooted assembly to develop a progressive labor movement, one that can overcome existing union stagnation. The post An Evening Discussion I Enjoyed with the Toronto Workers Assembly appeared first on Jane McAlevey.| Jane McAlevey
