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Jacobin | For Mothers Like Me, Raising a Child Involves Managing a Constant Sense of Rage by Sandra Lane
Bargaining for the Common Good's Education Director Sandra Jeong Lane joins Jacobin Magazine to discuss working mother's fight in labor. The rights of child-bearing workers is always a Common Good issue from maternity leave to making sure mothers are supported and...
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...
Building Class Power by Fighting for the Common Good
Stephanie Luce of the School of Labor and Urban Studies at CUNY writes on the growth of the Bargaining for the Common Good movement and the power of innovative organizing in response to the crises facing workers and communities. "Unions have no choice but to step up...
Deepening and broadening the demand for sectoral bargaining
Check out this piece from Marilyn Sneiderman of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization and Joe McCartin of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown on the future of Bargaining for the Common Good, sectoral bargaining and more...
Updated: Fighting for the Common Good in Connecticut
UPDATE: On November 19th, the Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges rallied with students, community members, and other workers called on lawmakers in Connecticut at a rally to invest in public education and push back against calls for austerity. Read more about...
Organizing The Neoliberal University, The Forge
In October 2020, online publication, The Forge, published a two-part issue on unions and progressive activism in higher education. Activists at universities across the country write about organizing, research, and bargaining for their jobs and for the future of higher...
Here’s How We Not Just Reopen, But Transform Higher Education
This month's issue of The Forge features articles and strategy from activists in higher education. Check out this article about members of the BCG network who are fighting for the future of higher education. You can read the whole issue at The Forge.
Labor Day is a time to recognize all unions do — to help health care, education, even marriage
Terri Gerstein writes in NBC Think on the importance of unions as a force for promoting the common good--beyond labor and workers' rights. Read more here...
Make Corporate Landlords Pay the Bills During the Pandemic
Check out this piece on Inequality.org from Sara Myklebust of Bargaining for the Common Good and KI and Sofia Lopez of ACRE. Corporate landlords have reaped billions in tax deductions and giveaways while millions of renters have lost their livelihoods in the midst of...