Energy from Unexpected Sources: Opportunities for New Organizing

We encourage you to join us for the upcoming breakfast forum on Friday, October 12^th, “Energy from Unlikely Sources:  Opportunities for New Organizing,” to be held at the new CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies in Midtown Manhattan.

We have an incredible lineup of veteran labor organizers and leaders that will speak about innovative, broad-based collective bargaining and organizing strategies that aim to build power and grow the labor movement in the wake of Janus and other recent anti-worker attacks.  The forum will be moderated by SLU professor Penny Lewis.  Please see detailed info below, and don’t forget to RSVP today!

We hope to see you at the breakfast forum on Friday 10/12!

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For more than a quarter century, workers and the U.S. labor movement have sustained significant setbacks, including the broad expansion of “right-to-work” conditions; the increasing use by employers of vehicles that enable them to shirk standard employer responsibilities; and the Supreme Court’s tendency to prioritize employers’ property rights over worker rights. Despite these trends, 61 percent of Americans view unions favorably; organizing and unionization among young workers is surging, with three-quarters of new union members in 2017 being under 35 years old; and 2018 saw the largest wildcat strikes in decades, with teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona challenging wage stagnation and school funding cutbacks. What does this imply about the possibilities and struggles ahead for labor? Which strategic options would enable organized labor to succeed at mass organizing and to join forces with racial and economic justice organizations to become a movement?

Energy From Unlikely Sources:  Opportunities for New Organizing

Friday, October 12, 8:30-10:30am

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
25 W. 43rd Street, 18^th Floor
New York, NY 10036

RSVP HERE

Speakers Include:

• Lauren Jacobs, Executive Director, The Partnership for Working Families
• Marilyn Sneiderman, Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University
• Larry Cohen, Chair, Board of Directors, Our Revolution; former president of Communications Workers of America (CWA)
• Maritza Silva-Farrell, Executive Director, The Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN)
• Moderated by: Penny Lewis, Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
  

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