Michael McQuarrie

Three Promising Innovations in Worker Organizing Beyond the NLRB With continued attacks on organized labor from the current administration, the labor movement needs to look for innovative strategies for working-class elevation.

*the bond market will not save us
*the Harvard president will not save us
*the courts will not save us

Mass organizing to build working class power is what we need. A new report in @inequality.org by @cwd-asu.bsky.social (@mgmcquarrie.bsky.social et al.) shows how:

inequality.org/article/thre...

“One common feature of many of the strategies discussed [in the new report] is a willingness to experiment with new organizational forms. Unions are limited, legally and organizationally, in many ways, and they can be greatly aided by an eclectic organizational network”

“Hat’s off to the [CWD] team for producing your ‘Beyond the NLRB’ report. It’s comprehensive, insightful, thought-provoking, altogether a tour de force… It will be a tremendous resource for the labor movement for years to come.”
Read the report here 👇

“With the National Labor Relations Act now in the crosshairs of the Right, organized labor needs to confront an uncomfortable truth: even at its best, this framework has severe limitations. It’s time to explore alternatives.”

After North Carolina Election Loss, Amazon Union Organizers Must Think Bigger, Bolder Local organizers built a bold multiracial, multigenerational union with grassroots energy and tenacity. But Amazon is too big to beat through site-by-site organizing and striking.

In his new article for @thenation.com , CWD AiR Jonathan Rosenblum reflects on the recent organizing loss for independent union, CAUSE, in their fight against Amazon in NC and articulates a number of keys that organizers can learn for future efforts against Amazon: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Our newest report, “Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal,” is officially here! drive.google.com/file/d/1qT1j...

“What has happened in Quebec ought to put the entire labor movement on notice. Site-by-site organizing... will be a failed strategy at Amazon... Amazon can be beaten, but it’s going to take strategic coordination among its approximately 1.7 million US workers”

‘Not on Our Dime’: Divesting from Genocide through Direct Democracy This campaign is working to make Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the first city to put divestment directly on the ballot.

My colleague Ben Case breaks down Pittsburgh's effort to put a divestment initiative on the ballot and tells us what it means for our politics and possibilities for future mobilizations. convergencemag.com/articles/not...

Thank you so much to the team at SEIU-UHW for hosting members of the CWD at the UHW Staff Retreat! It was so amazing to get to see our allies and learn more about the roots and future of your organization.

“How do we not only take care of our union members... but also how do we go out into the community... where our members live and recruit our friends and family into allied health care jobs so that they can come and work side by side?”

This has been a long-running project @cwd-asu.bsky.social. The labor movement needs a strategy for rebuilding the power of workers in the economy and the polity. Campaign analysis by armchair generals will not get us there.

Amazon’s Retribution in Quebec Should Be a Wake-Up Call In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing met...

New from CWD Activist in Residence Jonathan Rosenblum and Associate Director Ben Fong:
Amazon’s union-busting reaches new heights in Canada as execs close down ALL SEVEN warehouses in Quebec to avoid contract negotiation with one recently-unionized warehouse. Learn more: jacobin.com/2025/01/amaz...

Amazon’s Retribution in Quebec Should Be a Wake-Up Call In response to a successful unionization effort at a warehouse in Quebec, Amazon is shuttering its operations in the entire province. Its punitive behavior demonstrates that traditional organizing met...

A much-needed wake-up call on Amazon and labor movement strategy from my terrific colleagues Ben Fong and Jonathan Rosenblum. This challenge can be met, the question is: will it be met. Most laborist discussion isn't even beginning to have this discussion. jacobin.com/2025/01/amaz...

seconded, for-profit healthcare is immoral (and also a disaster by every possible public health and fiscal metric).

More politicians going out of their way to screw over workers.

The fact that amazon drivers are constantly monitored, to the point that they have supervisors calling them constantly to make sure they are doing their work efficiently, while police are basically unsupervised and indemnified might be considered a failure of governance and policy.

The Consultant Con | Max Kiefel Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.

@maxkiefel.bsky.social on the Dems2024 election in @thebaffler.com, one of the best magazines out there: "The crux of the problem is that Democrats use data to reflect the mirage of public opinion." And, also, it isn't a party. It's a network of consultants and donors. thebaffler.com/latest/the-c...

really? Look at ballot initiatives and then say it again. Minimum wage increases, minimum wage increases pegged to inflation, medicaid expansion, overturning right-to-work, felon enfranchisement, anti-corruption in politics, limits on medical debt, abortion access... in red states. get a grip.

We'll view this era nostalgically when the bulldozers pull up outside.

Note to Minnesota elected officials and editorial writers: the people will celebrate their heroes.

Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.

Editorial standards in 2024: 1.) humanize the chairman of a death council, 2.) dehumanize Palestinian children. Level up of necropolitics achieved.

Opinion | The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Bitter Taste of What’s Coming In the case involving medical care for transgender adolescents, ignoring doctors is part of the point.

In which I think about how much we've lost already and how much worse it will get.The Supreme Court Just Gave Us a Bitter Taste of What’s Coming www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

the implications...

It’s true, and (my preliminary analysis suggests) this barely cracks the top 10 of most gerrymandered maps over the past 15 years. Partisan gerrymandering is just on a whole nother level since 2010

Online influencers are selling the trad wife life, but we have to ask: why are young women willing to buy what they sell?

As I show in Holding It Together, the appeal of that life--and Christian nationalism--stems from how the US has forced women to stand in for a social safety net. 1/

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

A Direct Democracy Strategy for the Left Ballot initiatives can push policy to the left, rebuild a fighting working-class political base, and prepare movements to govern democratically.

Excellent on ballot initiative politics from my colleague Ben Case. If you think Dems lost because they're "too far left", explain why redistributive initiatives win all the time. The problem is the Democrats, not redistributive policy. jacobin.com/2024/12/dire... @cwd-asu.bsky.social