Help us celebrate the release of McAlevey's new book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy. 

Join us for a conversation between author Jane McAlevey and UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl.
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Friends,

We are excited to welcome longtime la
bor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey to Los Angeles this month to celebrate the release of her new book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy.

Join LAANE and the LA County Federation of Labor for an up-close book talk and signing with McAlevey in conversation with UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl.

A Collective Bargain features a detailed chapter on the importance of the 2019 LA teachers' strike. This conversation will take place exactly one year after teachers returned to their classrooms after six days of rain-soaked picket lines and citywide marches.
Thursday, January 23 from 6-8 pm
St. Paul's Commons Retreat & Conference Center
840 Echo Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions.

In A Collective Bargain, McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.

Until today. Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback.

Want to reverse the nation’s mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job? Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions.

As McAlevey travels from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged by America’s teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the struggles that will shape our country―and our future.

We hope to see you on January 23rd!
In Solidarity,

Roxana Tynan
LAANE Executive Director
LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and the organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.
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