We are excited to share that we have partnered with The Forge to publish a special edition of the online magazine on Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) for organizers and strategists.

The edition opens with a bold Call to Action in This Moment (excerpt below) and includes articles from leaders across our movements describing incredible intersectional BCG campaigns for our communities. It also features the recordings of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) webinars we hosted over the past year.

Below is a listing of the articles appearing the BCG issue of The Forge:

We Fight Back to Thrive, Not Survive: Bargaining for the Common Good in Puerto Rico (Spanish version here) – Armando Santiago Pintado of Construyamos Otro Acuerdo and Manuel Rodríguez Banchs

Bargaining for Climate Justice – Todd E. Vachon of CIWO, Saket Soni of Resilience Force, Judith Le Blanc of Native Organizers’ Alliance, and Gerry Hudson of SEIU

Bargaining for the Common Good as Racial Justice – Maurice Weeks of ACRE and Liz Perlman of AFSCME 3299

Going Up the Money Tree – Saqib Bhatti of ACRE and Kevin Connor of the Public Accountability Initiative (LittleSis)

The Origins and Urgency of Bargaining for the Common Good – Joseph McCartin of the Kalmanovitz Initiative (KI) at Georgetown University and Merrie Najimy of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Association (MTA)

Transforming Higher Education in this Moment: Uniting to Bargain for the Common Good – Malini Cadambi-Daniel of Faculty Forward SEIU and Patrick Nowlan of Rutgers AAUP-AFT

We all need a home: It’s Time for The Labor and Housing Movements to Unite – Afua Atta-Mensah of Community Voices Heard, Christina Livingston of ACCE, and Sara Myklebust of BCG

Engaging Membership Through Popular Education as a Key Tool in Building Bargaining for the Common Good Campaigns – Harmony Goldberg of Grassroots Policy Project and Valery Alzaga of UNISON

Bargaining for the Common Good and the Fight for Better Banks for Our Communities – Erin Mahoney of CWA and Rita Berlofa of UNI Finance

We Want Bread and Housing Too: Bargaining for the Common Good an Intersectional Feminist Strategy – Lauren Jacobs of PWF, Marilyn Sneiderman and Sheri Davis-Faulkner of CIWO, and Renata Pumarol of ACRE