Updates
BCG Leaders Headline WILL Empower Symposium
In Early October, leaders from across the worker justice movement gathered for the two-day "Womxn's Labor Leadership Symposium." Multiple leaders from the Bargaining for the Common Good Advisory Committee and BCG network partners were featured during the event. In...
What Could This Moment of Labor Strife Become if Workers Get More Organized?
Bargaining for the Common Good network organizer, Alex Han, appears on The Marc Steiner show to talk BCG and worker activism. "So one thing I’m hopeful of is that we’ve again, leveled up the level of strike activity and [sharper] activity around the boss. But I do...
Senate Hearing: How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market
This Thursday, October 21 at 10am ET, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will host a hearing, "How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market." The hearing will feature Sofia Lopez, Deputy Campaign Director focused on Housing at...
Common Good Victory in Connecticut
Throughout the pandemic, SEIU 1199NE's workers served on the frontlines, caring for Connecticut's most vulnerable residents and keeping local and state governments operational to support the community. 1199's workers, disproportionately Black, Brown and women,...
Webinar: Teacher Unions and Social Justice
On Tuesday, June 8, Bargaining for the Common Good co-hosted a webinar with Rethinking Schools, "Teacher Unions and Social Justice." The webinar attracted educators and activists from across the country who are working to organize for the schools and communities...
Unions Take Up the Fight for Racial Justice
"The labor movement will not survive at all, let alone build power, without a serious racial analysis and making racial justice key to their core mission." Stephanie Luce describes the fight by unions and worker groups to center racial justice in organizing and...
Welcoming Bianca Cunningham as Campaigns Director
Bianca Cunningham is a former Verizon Wireless worker who led her coworkers in 7 stores across Brooklyn, NY to join CWA in 2014, making them the first unionized retail workers in the company. She later led her coworkers on a 49 day strike to secure their first...
REPORT: Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Today, the Bargaining for the Common Good Network released a report with our friends at the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund on the explosion of wealth among corporate landlords in the midst of a deadly housing crisis and...
Taxing the Rich and Bargaining for Racial Justice in Connecticut
On February 24th, hundreds of members of the Bargaining for the Common Good network gathered virtually to hear from organizers from SEIU 1199 NE and members of Bridgeport Generation Now about a groundbreaking BCG campaign in Connecticut bringing together union workers...