organizing
Stay-At-Home organizing: Voters hear candidates at “virtual house parties”
April 21, 2020In-person debates are out, but local coalitions and candidates in Washington State are finding new ways to organize under COVID-19 conditions.
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Buzzfeed unionizing shows digital media workers still need unions
February 13, 2019A bout of recent layoffs and fights for proper compensation by the employees of Buzzfeed has led to workers on the job there voting to unionize, showing that new school media still requires the “old school”...
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Following New York elections, tenants hit the ground running
November 19, 2018As the first wintry blast of precipitation arrived in New York, tenants organized on the southern tip of Manhattan’s financial district.
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JwJ Co-Director Smiley named first ‘Will Empower’ recipient for woman labor leaders
October 5, 2018Smiley will use the fellowship “to concentrate on completing a book on a 21st-century framework for organizing and collective bargaining.”
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North Carolina farmworkers win back right to bargain for dues checkoff
September 26, 2018In a win for North Carolina’s unionized farm workers, a federal judge reinstated the right of their union to negotiate for a dues checkoff.
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