From RAs to dining hall staff, college unions are making strides for the labor movement, ensuring that workers’ voices are heard! In a new piece for Power At Work's Students & Solidarity Project, Asia S. explores how unions on college campuses help achieve stability and equity through advocating for better pay, increased job security, & transparency from employers! Read more by visiting the link in the comments and subscribe for more worker power content!
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Contributing to a discourse that puts workers and worker power at the center of the conversation.
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Sustained and effective worker power arises out of collective action. Our goal at the Power At Work blog is to advance actions that build power to confront power — contributing to a discourse in the United States that puts workers at the center of the conversation.
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Jamila Butler
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Sanjana Mishra
Reporter at Boston.com, Criminal Justice & Journalism student at Northeastern University
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Zeno Minotti
Communication Studies and Psychology Student at Northeastern University
Updates
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"Community Navigators Can Increase Access to Unemployment Benefits and New Jobs While Building Worker Power” by Michele Evermore, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, & David Madland for the Center for American Progress is one item on this week's #PowerAtWork Weekly Download—subscribe, and have it delivered to your inbox, every week. The Weekly Download is the place for ideas, features, research, and news coverage about workers, worker power, and unions – delivered to your inbox and Power At Work, every week. Click the link in the comments to check out this week’s edition, and subscribe to stay in the loop!
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The public-sector pay gap Is widening and is impacting everyone, not just workers. But unions can help shrink it! In their new piece for Power At Work, Monique Morrissey and Jennifer Sherer write about how unions can bring about stronger collective bargaining rights for the public-sector, ultimately closing the pay gap. Read the full story by visiting the link in the comments and subscribe for more worker power content!
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Power At Work’s Q4 2024 Quarterly Labor Issues Survey is coming, but with an important technology twist. Power At Work is partnering with Remesh to run a mass online focus group of labor insiders and knowledgeable outsiders to answer questions about the state of labor and the union movement’s future. The critical ingredient is your participation. The mass online focus group will be held virtually at 8pm ET on November 7th, 2024. To join, please click on the link in the first comment. We look forward to learning your views on November 7th and showing off Remesh’s mass focus group technology.
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Learn about the current state of immigration in the U.S. and how it relates to labor in a new Power At Work blogcast! The Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by the director of immigration policy for the AFL-CIO, Shannon Lederer, and an immigration campaign director for the SEIU, Lety Salcedo, to discuss immigration, the labor movement, and more! Watch the blogcast or listen to the podcast by visiting the links in the comments!
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Unions and worker cooperatives both play vital roles in building worker power...but what could they achieve together? In a new piece for Power At Work, Dylan Hatch explores how unions and co-ops can complement each other, creating a stronger labor movement that empowers workers on all fronts! Learn more about the future of labor by visiting the link in the comments!
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“Union Politics & Power: Labor activists are organizing to have impact on election” by Karen Juanita Carrillo for New York Amsterdam News has been selected for this week's #PowerAtWork Weekly Download. Subscribe, and have it delivered to your inbox, every week. The Weekly Download is the place for ideas, features, research, and news coverage about workers, worker power, and unions – delivered to your inbox and Power At Work, every week. Click the link in the comments to check out this week’s edition, and subscribe to stay in the loop!
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Want to learn more about the debate on AI's role in the voice acting industry? In a new post for Power At Work, Surina Venkat uncovers the divide between voice actors over SAG-AFTRA's recent AI deals. Hear from president and co-founder of the National Association of Voice Actors (NAVA), Tim Friedlander, and other voice actors to understand how the new agreements impact voice talent. Click the link in the comments and subscribe for more worker power content!
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The Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, Sharon Block, and former director of government affairs at the AFL-CIO, Bill Samuel, for the first ever "buy or sell" episode on Power At Work! Find out if Block, Samuel, and Harris are "buying" or "selling" certain predictions about the labor movement by visiting the links in the comments. Watch the blogcast or listen to the podcast and subscribe for more worker power content!
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Check out the new Power At Work series, "Students & Solidarity", written by college students, for college students! Zeno Minotti's inaugural article of the series helps to make union organizing and the labor movement more understandable. Join us as we explore how worker solidarity will shape the future. Learn about the role of the labor movement and worker empowerment on campus & beyond by visiting the link in the comments!