Organizing Mega-Corporations

The question of how to organize megacorporations is urgent for everyone who works for justice.

As a seasoned organizer confronting new conditions, I invite others to join me in embracing the freedom of admitting our uncertainty.

Gene Bruskin on what organizers fighting megacorporations today can learn from the campaign at Smithfield

As we think about how to organize Amazon’s workforce, it is vital that we ask ourselves if our organizing matches the structure of the company — geographically, sectorally, and financially. Currently, it does not to the extent it needs to.

After more than 40 years in which public policy has actively encouraged concentration, giving rise to megacorporations whose power threatens to eclipse that of government itself, today’s growing anti-monopoly movement offers a promising path for uniting small businesses with workers and building the political will for change. 

A conversation with Alphonso Mayfield

Andrea Dehlendorf and Strea Sanchez on why they believe that organizing workers today requires us to challenge much of the received wisdom about how best to organize a workplace.

Jill Hurst talks about her decades of experience in the labor movement, what labor can learn from movements like ACT UP, and the power of a militant minority executing culturally transgressive disruptions.

Eighty years ago, manufacturing unions faced the challenge of organizing a new and rapidly growing industry. What can we learn from these earlier struggles?

Join the conversation about the movement we need to organize megacorporations.