INTERVIEW

VISION & STRATEGY

Organizing for Power: The Fight of Our Lives

By Jane McAleve

May 9, 2024

Source: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

In this interview, labor organizer, teacher and strategist Jane McAlevey turns the attention back to what YOU and all of us need to do NOW to win more and win better. Because the planet is on fire and, make no mistake, this is The Fight of Our Lives. Interview by Preethy Sivakumar (CUPE) and Jollene Levid (UTLA), with an introduction from Ethan Earle (O4P). Hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Organizing for Power.

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Jane McAlevey

Jane F. McAlevey is an American union organizer, author, and political commentator. Since June 2019, McAlevey is a Senior Policy Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center. She was also named Strikes correspondent for The Nation magazine. McAlevey has written three books about power and strategy and the essential role of workers and trade unions in reversing income inequality and building a stronger democracy: No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (Oxford University Press, 2016), Raising Expectations and Raising Hell (Verso Books, 2012), and her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, which was published by Ecco Press in January 2020.