Updates
WEBINAR: How Unions Can Build Common Good Housing Work
On May 19, BCG partnered with community allies, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and the Chicago Teachers Union for a virtual conversation on bargaining for housing justice. Speakers dug in on strategies, challenges, and best practices for...
Welcoming New Staff to the BCG Network
The Bargaining for the Common Good network is growing! This Spring we are excited to welcome Alisha Volante and Sandra Jeong Lane to the BCG team. Alisha will be based at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and serve as Strategic Initiatives...
Welcoming New BCG Advisory Committee Members
The BCG network is excited to welcome two new members to the BCG Advisory Committee. Veronica Mendez Moore of CTUL and Greg Nammacher of SEIU 26 are part of an exciting BCG campaign in the Twin Cities. Read their biographies below. Veronica Mendez MooreCo-Director,...
BCG Leaders Headline WILL Empower Symposium
In Early October, leaders from across the worker justice movement gathered for the two-day "Womxn's Labor Leadership Symposium." Multiple leaders from the Bargaining for the Common Good Advisory Committee and BCG network partners were featured during the event. In...
What Could This Moment of Labor Strife Become if Workers Get More Organized?
Bargaining for the Common Good network organizer, Alex Han, appears on The Marc Steiner show to talk BCG and worker activism. "So one thing I’m hopeful of is that we’ve again, leveled up the level of strike activity and [sharper] activity around the boss. But I do...
Senate Hearing: How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market
This Thursday, October 21 at 10am ET, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will host a hearing, "How Private Equity Landlords are Changing the Housing Market." The hearing will feature Sofia Lopez, Deputy Campaign Director focused on Housing at...
Common Good Victory in Connecticut
Throughout the pandemic, SEIU 1199NE's workers served on the frontlines, caring for Connecticut's most vulnerable residents and keeping local and state governments operational to support the community. 1199's workers, disproportionately Black, Brown and women,...
Webinar: Teacher Unions and Social Justice
On Tuesday, June 8, Bargaining for the Common Good co-hosted a webinar with Rethinking Schools, "Teacher Unions and Social Justice." The webinar attracted educators and activists from across the country who are working to organize for the schools and communities...
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...