The Workers’ Project provides the education and research that empowers workers to improve conditions in their workplace and community.
Working ain’t working for workers. You already know it. Income inequality is at a lifetime high. The wealthy bought politics and, therefore, rule our government. The state has and continues to fail workers. Workers’ laws are too seldom enforced, defunded, and repealed. Union membership now is under 10% and only 5.9% in the private sector. In 1935, when the National Labor Relation Act was passed and enacted, unionization rates were 12.8%. Organized labor is caged. Additional modes of worker representation are required.
Since 1996, our Workers’ Project experimented. We know additional forms of worker representation and organization are possible. Circumstances demand we share our notable failures to be rethought and successes to be reworked and scaled up. You too have experimented. We need to learn from your experiments and observations. Together, we can build a culture of solidarity where workers across all backgrounds stand with each other to create a future that works for us all. Today, our goal is to help workers learn from us and from each other to improve work, for workers one and all.
Join us this September 18-20th at our Cultures of Solidarity conference to see worker organizing in action.
