Updates
Welcoming Bianca Cunningham as Campaigns Director
Bianca Cunningham is a former Verizon Wireless worker who led her coworkers in 7 stores across Brooklyn, NY to join CWA in 2014, making them the first unionized retail workers in the company. She later led her coworkers on a 49 day strike to secure their first...
REPORT: Cashing in on Our Homes: Billionaire Landlords Profit as Millions Face Eviction
Today, the Bargaining for the Common Good Network released a report with our friends at the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund on the explosion of wealth among corporate landlords in the midst of a deadly housing crisis and...
Taxing the Rich and Bargaining for Racial Justice in Connecticut
On February 24th, hundreds of members of the Bargaining for the Common Good network gathered virtually to hear from organizers from SEIU 1199 NE and members of Bridgeport Generation Now about a groundbreaking BCG campaign in Connecticut bringing together union workers...
Remembering Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis was a visionary leader who empowered Black and Brown communities, inspired educators across the country, and revitalized the American labor movement. We join friends and allies across the country in mourning her passing. Under Karen's leadership,...
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...
Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
We are excited to co-release, "Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health: Protecting Essential Workers from Pandemic Profiteers," a report on the skyrocketing wealth of billionaires on the backs of frontline workers. We were excited to work on this report with...
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...