Archive:Rutgers

• WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

  Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.

  Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: CIWO, Economic Justice, Feminism, Georgetown, John Russo, KI, Lane Windham, Rutgers, Scheduling, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WILL Empower, Women, Women Innovating Labor Leadership, Working-Class Perspectives

• Bargain for the Common Good: Lessons from LA and Beyond

  Find out how the Fix LA Coalition united labor and community groups, broke the mold on collective bargaining, and WON BIG – and how the Bargaining for the Common Good strategy used in LA is helping workers and their allies around the country roll back austerity, win new revenues for public services, and build power together.

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events Tags: AFSCME, AFT, Bargaining for the Common Good, BCG, CIWO, Fix LA, Fix Los Angels, Los Angeles, NEA, Rutgers, SEIU