In her fourth book on union organizing and building the power of the labor movement, Jane McAlevey continues to provide working people with the tools needed to build and strengthen workplace democracy, this time with a focus on winning successful contracts.
McAlevey argues labor’s priority should be organizing that targets strategic sectors with hard-to-replace workforces.
Professor Ken Jacobs, chair of the U.C. Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, suggested a few ways Biden and congressional Democrats could put action behind a robust working class message.
“Unfortunately, employers use this threat to discourage workers from going on strike or to push workers to end a strike before an adequate contract agreement has been reached,” says Laurel Lucia.
The new GAO report echoes the conclusions of similar studies by the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center in 2013 and 2015, which found that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing large corporations to the tune of $153 billion per year in the form of public assistance programs to support their low-wage employees.
