Updates
RECAP: Mapping the Common Good
On September 15, over 150 activists and organizers from across the country gathered to learn about how to use BCG's innovative mapping tool to help build innovative campaigns in local geographies that bring together unions and community organization to fight for the...
Mapping the Common Good: Lessons for Building BCG Campaigns
Earlier this summer, the Bargaining for the Common Good network launched an innovative new tool - a map of union contracts and expiration dates across the country that can help our movements sync up our campaigns and potential strikes for the common good. This map is...
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...
Will The Teachers Take Control?
Joseph McCartin of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor writes on the ongoing fight over school reopenings in the United States in Dissent. Read the whole article here.
Teachers Gather Nationwide for Safe, Healthy, and Equitable Schools
Across the country, teachers and school workers are scared, angry and ready to fight for the safety of their students and communities. On August 3rd, educators in over 20 cities across the country stood up to demand safe, healthy and equitable schools for all...
This Interactive Mapping Tool Can Help Workers Plan Mass Strikes
VICE reporter Lauren Kaori Gurley reports on the Bargaining for the Common Good mapping project. Read more about our groundbreaking work here.
Mapping the Common Good
As workers across the country fight for their jobs and communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bargaining for the Common Good is releasing a new tool to help connect and coordinate campaigns across the country. Check out the maps and resources on how...
How Workers Can Win in the Age of COVID-19: The Progressive
Sarah Jaffe of The Progressive details how the Bargaining for the Common Good movement can be a tool for communities and workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and describes our ambitious project to map contracts and organizing campaigns across the country....