Join the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, the South Central Federation of Labor, and the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice for a night of conversation with Jane McAlevey. Jane McAlevey is a labor organizer, author, and scholar. Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Stephanie Bloomingdale will lead a discussion on McAlevey’s upcoming book, “A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy.”
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m.
Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St. Madison
“As Go Unions, So Goes the Republic: The Labor Movement and the Political Future” Conversation with Stephanie Bloomingdale, President, Wisconsin AFL-CIO and author and organizer Jane McAlevey.
Jane McAlevey has spent most of her life as an organizer and negotiator. She’s fourth generation union, raised in an activist-union household.
McAlevey’s first release, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age was released late in 2016. McAlevey is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations. Her third book, forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins January 7, 2020, argues that despite, if not because of, the withering attacks on working people from the US Supreme Court, conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions.
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