A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.
Labor and community organizations who have been aligning for years are escalating their fights at the same time.
Putting creative housing demands on the bargaining table and engaging in public campaigns for tenant protections are essential first steps for all unions that can bargain on the offensive as they gain power.
Statewide education funding is the barrier to the kind of schools we want, ones with small class sizes and more support and resources for students. We won’t achieve this kind of transformational change without an intervention at the state level.
Two long-time organizers for economic, racial, and gender justice reflect on the lessons of the past half-century and assess the strategic challenges and opportunity confronting a new generation of workers, activists, and organizers.
When people have bad working conditions and no voice on the job, it’s obviously bad for them. But rotten jobs affect our collective health, safety and well-being.
The labor movement will not survive at all, let alone build power, without a serious racial analysis and making racial justice key to their core mission.
"Mapping for the Common Good" is a tool for unions to map contracts and line up contract campaigns for more leverage. Bargaining for the Common Good combines union power with community demands in a way that can build class power.
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