Stephen Lerner

Financing Our Own Destruction How workers’ pensions fuel attacks on the working class—and how to reclaim them for the common good.

In These Times has great new articles on how workers pension $$$ is being invested in corporations that are bad for workers, the economy and democracy.

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#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call · May Day Strong Join us to hear front line reports from Free DC and Chicago as working people across the country stand up to the billionaire agenda and demand a country that works for workers. Get the details you ne...

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “#WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Mass Call” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Requiem for the Wagner Act Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.

Great article on death of NRLA and need for unions to act now and give up fantasy about labor law reform passing.
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Virtual Rally with May Day Strong · May Day Strong Join our Virtual Rally as we head into May Day! Get pumped and ready to hit the streets with an all star group of speakers. Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bot...

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See this upcoming event from @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social. "No Time for Caution: How Labor Should Meet This Moment." Webinar featuring Stephen Lerner, Stephanie Luce, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social, and @willpjones.bsky.social. Register using this link:
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A thoughtful and timely call to action from a labor visionary, @stephenlerner.bsky.social. We can’t rely on courts to protect our rights and democracy in this crisis. Lerner outlines the beginnings of the kind of strategy that meets this moment.

Thanks to @dissentmag.bsky.social for running this piece.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally.

The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor “Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

If you don't know much about Marilyn Sneiderman's impact on the labor movement—and even if you do—I urge you to read this piece from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Sneiderman just retired, but her transformational impact is ongoing. A great read.

“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor “Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

Wonderful article by Sarah Jaffe about Marilyn Sneiderman ‘s life in the labor movement
inthesetimes.com/article/mari...

New Labor Forum republished @JosephMcCartin interview, from a couple years ago, with me on reflections on Justice For Janitors.

Interesting to explore what lessons from J4J are relevant to current moment.

newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2025/01/06/l...

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Community coalition issues demands for BlueOval City benefits, calls on Ford to negotiate • Tennessee Lookout A coalition of community members near Ford BlueOval City in West Tennessee have issued a list of demands for a community benefits agreement.

Labor & community unite to demand Ford’s blue oval plant address workers and community demands!

tennesseelookout.com/2024/11/22/c...

new report: "Investing for the Common Good: How Workers' Pensions Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis" from me & others @AFR & BCG

workers' pension fund assets are some of the biggest concentrations of $$ in the world

let's use them to solve big problems

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@GeorgetownKILWP & @RealBankReform's new report asks us all to reimagine how workers' pension fund assets could be used to transform our housing system, rather than continue to make the wealthy even wealthier. (LINK)