Want to join our Summer Book Club?
We invite you to join us for the Collective’s first-ever Summer Book Club, as we read Jane McAlevey’s latest book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing and the Fight for Democracy. (Available for free on San Diego's CloudLibrary app!)
Together, we will read, discuss, and build bonds of solidarity so that we can increase our organizing capacity and make our union even stronger!
When: Friday, July 22 and Tuesday, August 2 at 10:00 am
Where: On Zoom (Linkwill be sent to all who sign up)
Sign up here to join the Summer Book Club. We look forward to seeing you there!
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A quick synopsis of the book from Goodreads:
From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy
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, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane 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.
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Save the date:
- Saturday, August 6th will be our HTEC August Retreat to begin brainstorming and planning for the upcoming school year. Want to be more involved in the union? Have some good ideas to share? Come and join us! We'll be sending out more information later this summer.
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In Solidarity,
The High Tech Education Collective
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