Updates
We’ve Got News! Update on BCG/ACRE Merger
we are excited to announce that BCG is merging with the Action Center on Race and the Economy, a national organization with years of experience building corporate campaigns with an explicit racial lens. Through this merger, we will add much-needed capacity to strengthen and expand the Bargaining for the Common Good network.
Chicago Teachers Union Fight for Affordable Housing, Support for Migrants and Climate Justice
From In These Times: The Chicago Teachers Unions is gearing up to further the Bargaining for the Common Good mission in the third largest public school education system in the country. In addition to better working conditions and learning conditions for their...
How Workers are Flexing Economic Power for the Common Good| BCG Research Director Sara Myklebust for NonProfit Quarterly
BCG’s Sara Myklebust participated in a panel discussing how workers and community groups are advancing economic justice through innovative strategies, following the launch of their pension campaign.
Listen: Blue Oval Good Neighbors Take Their Demands Straight to Motor City
Blue Oval Good Neighbors (BOGN) intensified their efforts against Ford in Detroit, confronting council members at the Megasite Authority meeting. They achieved milestones such as a NPR radio interview and community activism, while raising questions about engagement with local residents. For ongoing updates, visit TN4ALL.com.
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...
Support the Minnesota Week of Action
Over 10,000 workers have come together for an unprecedented week of actions across Minnesota to answer the question "What Could We Win Together?"This inspiring common good campaign for Dignified Work, Good Schools, Stable Housing, and a Livable Planet is the result of...
Common Good for the Good of the Planet| “Pursuing a Just Transition in the Education Sector”
Bargaining for the common good is an innovative way of building community-labor alignments to jointly shape bargaining campaigns that advance the mutual interests of workers and communities alike. At their heart, these campaigns seek to confront structural...