“There Are So Many Things That We Can Learn From This Strike”
The Los Angeles teachers strike showed that bottom-up organizing can overcome extraordinary odds. We can do the same throughout the health and education sectors — and at Amazon.
Articles by: Jane McAlevey
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Jane McAlevey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor movement for over twenty years. While she continues to organize, she also writes for various publications and is the author of two books, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) and No Shortcuts, Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.
The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test
To build a more confident, fighting, politically educated working class, no task is more pressing right now than building for successful strikes.
A Strategy to Win
The victory in West Virginia and the impasse in Oklahoma raise important questions for the Left. Drawing out the strategic lessons of these strikes is crucial for the fights ahead.
Everything Old Is New Again
Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing.
Everything Old Is New Again
Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing.
Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labor's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing.