An American Prospect symposium
Stephen Lerner
Stephen Lerner is a labor and community organizer. He was the architect of the SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign, and now serves as a fellow at Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.
Posted inWorking in America
What Is Not to Be Done
If unions seek to re-create the labor movement of the past, organized labor will die. As capitalism has changed, so must workers’ movements.
Posted inEducation in America
Before the Chalk Dust Settles: Building on the 2018 Teachers’ Mobilization
By bargaining for and with the larger community, teachers are reinventing collective bargaining.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Write Down the 11 Million
Underwater homeowners aren’t backing down—they’re standing up and fighting back. And we need to stand with them.