Remember Béla Ferenc Dezső #Blaskó aka Bela #Lugosi #LaborOrganizer, #Activist, #Antifascist & Icon of #Horror and #Goth born on this Day on October 20, 1882
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Remember Béla Ferenc Dezső #Blaskó aka Bela #Lugosi #LaborOrganizer, #Activist, #Antifascist & Icon of #Horror and #Goth born on this Day on October 20, 1882
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Interview - Jane McAlevey: How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/jane-mcalevey-interview-labor-movement-strategy-whole-worker-organizing-supermajority-leadership
* longtime labor organizer/scholar/writer
* articulated how mass numbers of workers can organize/negotiate/strike/change world
Jane McAlevey, Los Angeles Teachers, and Fighting to Win
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/jane-mcalevey-teachers-organizing-obituary
* Los Angeles teachers’ union profoundly influenced by Jane McAlevey
#labor #LaborOrganizer #JaneMcAlevey #LaborDay #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #WorkersRights #capitalism
As a longtime labor organizer, scholar, and writer, Jane McAlevey has repeatedly articulated how mass numbers of workers can organize, negotiate, strike, and change the world. In an extended interview with Jacobin, McAlevey reflects on her life and work.
Remembering Jane McAlevey (1964–2024)
https://rosalux-geneva.org/remembering-jane-mcalevey-1964-2024
Jane McAlevey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McAlevey
Jane McAlevey’s Vision for Future of American Labor
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/jane-mcaleveys-vision-for-the-future-of-american-labor
Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, & Fight for Democracy
https://janemcalevey.com/book/a-collective-bargain-unions-organizing-and-the-fight-for-democracy/
* intractable social/economic problems eat away social & political fabric
* single, obvious weapon: unions
#labor #LaborOrganizer #JaneMcAlevey #LaborDay #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #WorkersRights #capitalism
The ground-breaking labour organizer and internationalist leaves behind a powerful legacy Jane McAlevey died on 8 July 2024 at the age of 59 following a battle with multiple myeloma. Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, Strikes Correspondent for The Nation magazine, long-time political actor, commentator, and educator, campaign strategist, and union organizer —
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Legendary Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey: One of Her Last Interviews on Strategies for Workers to Win
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/2/rip_jane_mcalevey_union_organizing
* this Labor Day we remember longtime labor organizer/scholar Jane McAlevey
* died 2024-July age 59
* dedicated life to empowering rank-and-file workers, training 10,000s around world to strengthen their unions
#labor #LaborOrganizer #JaneMcAlevey #LaborDay #unions #TradeUnions #LaborUnions #WorkersRights #capitalism #billionaires
As part of our Labor Day special, we remember the longtime labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey, who died in July at the age of 59. She dedicated her life to empowering rank-and-file workers, training tens of thousands around the world to effectively strengthen their unions. She gave one of her last interviews to Democracy Now! in April after she announced she was entering hospice. “We like to win,” says McAlevey, “and we like to teach workers how to win. What are the methods? What is it we can do?”