In asking the question, “Are labor unions on the rise?,” Pooja Bhatia of OZY cited Bargaining for the Common Good as one of the keys to the future success of the labor movement. She wrote:

After decades of losing members, legislative defeats and a declining return on labor, American unions have stopped looking within for the answer. […] “Fixing what’s wrong with the labor movement is the responsibility of more than the labor movement and requires the involvement of more than the unions themselves,” says Joseph McCartin, a Georgetown historian who directs the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. In May, the Initiative held a conference called Bargaining for the Common Good to discuss ways to open the labor movement beyond employers and employees. Unions actively participated, says McCartin, having “seen that the future for them has to be reaching out to allies and communities, and bargaining differently and in ways that include those allies.”

Read more about Bargaining for the Common Good and its role in shaping the future of unions and their community allies.