Community and union members partner around a long-term vision for the structural changes they want to see in their communities and use union bargaining as a critical moment in a broader campaign to win that change.
Network Updates
New Release: Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good
Workers’ pension funds, like so many aspects of our society, have become captives of Wall Street. Pension funds were created through struggle by workers, but the financial sector has figured out a way to exercise outsized control of those funds to serve their...
In recent decades, housing has become increasingly commodified and financialized, while tenants in communities across the country are being crushed under unsustainable rent burdens and a shortage of affordable housing. But tenants have been pushing back, with a recent wave of organizing at the local, state, and federal levels to build power for proven policy solutions that can start to turn the tide.
UMass – Boston Africana Studies Dept Hosts Bargaining for the Common Good Teach in & Speak Out
A “Bargaining for the Common Good” teach-in and speak-out hosted by the Africana Studies Department on Monday, April 29 sought to demonstrate how unions across the country—not just faculty or teacher unions, but all worker unions—can utilize their bargaining power to...