Condé Nast Unions Present “The Power of a Strike,” featuring Jane McAlevey
Join us for a panel conversation featuring JANE MCALEVEY, the author of No Shortcuts, with members of the New Yorker and Ars Technica Unions on organizing tactics that workers use to build power in the workplace.
Moderated by Susan DeCarava, NewsGuild of New York president
Condé Nast workers: Naib Mian, Gili Ostfield, and Han Zhang from The New Yorker and Nathan Mattise from Ars Technica
Jane McAlevey is an organizer, author, and scholar. She is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations. Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, argues that despite, if not because of, the withering attacks on working people from the U.S. Supreme Court, conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions.
Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, published by Oxford University Press, was released in 2016. From 2010 to 2015, she earned a Ph.D., followed by a two-year postdoc at the Harvard University Law School. After completing her PhD, McAlevey returned to the field and helped lead the most successful union organizing campaign in 2016, where nurses formed new unions in seven hospitals across Philadelphia. She is a regular commentator on radio and TV.