Autonomous Worker Organizing and Organized Labor: A Lecture.

When:
September 30, 2016 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Where:
Wildavsky Conference Room, Center for Research on Social Change, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Only 11% of United States workers today are unionized. Unions under our labor law regime and economic system have become smaller for almost a half century. Thus wages have stagnated or declined for the 89% of U.S. workers who are now not in unions and, for the unionized, they have barely kept pace with inflation. If greater union density improves wages and work life conditions for all workers: (1) how do we grow actually existing unions, and (2) how do we organize workers who are not unionized? The Oakland Livable … Continue reading Autonomous Worker Organizing and Organized Labor: A Lecture.