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Labor Day is a time to recognize all unions do — to help health care, education, even marriage
Terri Gerstein writes in NBC Think on the importance of unions as a force for promoting the common good--beyond labor and workers' rights. Read more here...
Make Corporate Landlords Pay the Bills During the Pandemic
Check out this piece on Inequality.org from Sara Myklebust of Bargaining for the Common Good and KI and Sofia Lopez of ACRE. Corporate landlords have reaped billions in tax deductions and giveaways while millions of renters have lost their livelihoods in the midst of...
Will The Teachers Take Control?
Joseph McCartin of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor writes on the ongoing fight over school reopenings in the United States in Dissent. Read the whole article here.
This Interactive Mapping Tool Can Help Workers Plan Mass Strikes
VICE reporter Lauren Kaori Gurley reports on the Bargaining for the Common Good mapping project. Read more about our groundbreaking work here.
How Workers Can Win in the Age of COVID-19: The Progressive
Sarah Jaffe of The Progressive details how the Bargaining for the Common Good movement can be a tool for communities and workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and describes our ambitious project to map contracts and organizing campaigns across the country....
Building Power Together: An Interactive Mapping Tool
Before the current global pandemic crisis began, we were already being attacked, not just as workers, but as mothers and fathers, tenants and homeowners, patients and debtors, caregivers, students and community members, and so many other aspects of our identities. We...
What Is Not to Be Done | The American Prospect
If unions seek to re-create the labor movement of the past, organized labor will die. As capitalism has changed, so must workers’ movements. Stephen Lerner of Bargaining for the Common Good envisions the future of workers and the labor movement in the wake of COVID-19...
A Call to Action in This Moment | The Forge
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...
Did We Just Witness the First Union-Authorized Climate Strike in the United States? | Common Dreams
Janitors with SEIU 26 partnered with community organizations across Minnesota to fight for healthy jobs and a healthy planet in a groundbreaking strike that may pave the way for future labor action on the environment. Read more here.