Articles
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Transforming Higher Education in this Moment: Uniting to Bargain for the Common Good
We must use this crisis moment to refortify shared governance models on Higher Education campuses and ensure that bargaining includes all of those impacted
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We all need a home: It’s Time for The Labor and Housing Movements to Unite
By partnering to target corporate landlords and expand the scope of what they bargain for, unions and housing justice groups are playing a crucial role in addressing the housing crisis
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Engaging Membership Through Popular Education as a Key Tool in Building Bargaining for the Common Good Campaigns
Popular education uses the immediate struggles around which community and union members are organized as entry points to build shared the struggle that is a central piece of the Bargaining for the Common Good movement and framework.
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The Origins and Urgency of Bargaining for the Common Good
Bargaining for the Common Good is a recent phenomenon with deep roots in U.S. labor history. If we are to emerge from this crisis with a more equitable nation, we must reinvent collective bargaining to meet the demands of our time
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Luchamos para vencer, no para sobrevivir: negociamos por el bien común en Puerto Rico
Ante el desastre, líderes puertorriqueños del movimiento comparten lo que han aprendido usando la Negociación por el Bien Común, forjando puentes entre comunidades y sindicatos en el camino para asegurar que la gente prospere.
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We Fight Back to Thrive, not Survive: Bargaining for the Common Good in Puerto Rico
In the face of disaster, Puerto Rican movement leaders share what they have learned using Bargaining for the Common Good, forging bridges between communities and unions to ensure that their people thrive.
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Bargaining for the Common Good as Racial Justice
Leaders call for traditional labor, newer worker organizations and the broader racial justice movement to target the real decision makers in both the public and private sectors that have a vested interest in keeping racial inequities in place.
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Going Up the Money Tree
Our economy and democracy have been hijacked - going up the money tree, an essential piece of Bargaining for the Common Good, helps us identify our true overlords so that we can force them to get out of our way.
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Lessons from the LA Teachers Common Good Campaign and Strike Victory
Conversation with union, parent and community leaders of United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)’s January 2019 Common Good strike about the strategies and lessons learned.
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Chicago Teachers Strike for the Schools Our Students Deserve and the City Our Community Deserves
A conversation with Stacy Davis-Gates, VP of the Chicago Teachers Union, and Amisha Patel, ED of the Grassroots Collaborative, about the October 2019 Common Good strike.
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Strategic Thinking in a Long Term Crisis: One Approach for Community Based Orgs
Moving through a long-term crisis calls us to vision the future, process tough emotions, and address immediate emergencies in the present moment, often all in the same day or hour. This tool was co-created to help community-based organizations map the questions that help them navigate these difficult and complex times.
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Coronavirus and its Political Offspring
Veteran political strategist Mike Podhorzer brings his analytical rigor to COVID-19 and raises important questions about the political implications.
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Race, Class and Coalitions
Sudip Bhattacharya digs into real-world organizing and left political theory to examine the politics of race, class and coalition building.
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Messaging Guidance on COVID-19
This guide is adapted from messaging developed with the <a href="http://millionvotersproject.org/">Million Voters Project</a>, a coalition of organizing networks in California. It draws upon previous messaging guidance from Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres.
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Moving Through Contagion Fear, Preparing for Recovery
Note: This essay builds on a March 7, 2020 essay by Larry Kleinman entitled Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic: Campaigns and Contingency Planning Amid the Effects and Fears of Coronavirus”
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Keeping Business Alive: The Government as Buyer of Last Resort
The coronavirus threatens the world’s economic life. Social distancing measures, essential to fight the epidemic, are sharply reducing demand in sectors such as transportation, restaurants, hotels, and entertainment.
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Organizando en Medio de una pandemia inminente: Campañas y planes de contingencia en medio de Una Pandemia Inminente: los efectos y temores del Coronaviru.
Un organizador veterano nos ayuda a considerar las preguntas que surgen con respecto a organizar mientras la crisis del coronavirus sigue creciendo cada dia.
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Organizing in a Time of Approaching Pandemic: Campaigns and Contingency Planning Amid the Effects and Fear of Coronavirus
<b id="docs-internal-guid-6a99fd44-7fff-2bbd-b61d-18fc52bc5cb2">A veteran organizer helps us to think through organizing questions as the coronavirus crisis grows by the day.</b>
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An Organizer’s Tale
We inaugurate the From the Archives series with a classic from Cesar Chavez.
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Building the Movement for Tax Justice
The new book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/the-triumph-of-injustice">The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay</a> has just come out, and it makes a few things really clear.