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The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice

The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice. Workshop Goals and Agenda. Deepen our ANALYSIS of the Future of Work Make CONNECTIONS between local and state level campaigns Share STRATEGY on how to connect these fights. Our main point.

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The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice

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  1. The Future of Work: Connecting Our Fights for Worker and Economic Justice

  2. Workshop Goals and Agenda • Deepen our ANALYSIS of the Future of Work • Make CONNECTIONS between local and state level campaigns • Share STRATEGY on how to connect these fights

  3. Our main point The nature of work has changed, fundamentally and forever

  4. Workers in the US used to take 3 things for granted

  5. But there has been a historic shift in the workplace …and not for the better

  6. Share of continent labor is up 50% in last 10 years First is a shift in the nature of employment

  7. This is not a natural phenomenon …it’s driven by a corporate business model

  8. Yikes! …this is not good for workers at all!

  9. Organizing corporate supply chains and corporations With Iowa CCI, Sunflower Community Action, and FuerzaLaboral

  10. The new normal is long periods of unemployment interrupted by brief employment 40% of the unemployed have been so for 27 weeks or longer Second, the shift in the nature of unemployment

  11. Rise of Structural Unemployment – from circumstantial to structural and from short-term to long-term

  12. Structural Racism is built into the labor market

  13. Fighting structural unemployment and racism With VOCAL-NY, TakeAction Minnesota and AMOS

  14. Third, the linking of local and global labor markets

  15. Here’s another main point Unless you are in the 1%, then we are all in the same boat and it’s sinking

  16. Fighting for Economic Justice With Community Voices Heard, Michigan United and Maine People’s Alliance

  17. Three big implications of this analysis For the Future of Work in America

  18. Only way forward There are 3 paths we can take

  19. Only way forward = build a long-term agenda & new economy

  20. Building a New Economy With Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, IIRON Student Network, and PUSH Buffalo

  21. It’s time to move from defense to offense …and build a new worker movement!

  22. Connecting Our Fights, Building a Movement With Gar Alperovitz (Democracy Collaborative), SaketSoni (National Guestworkers Alliance), David Kimball (Center for Community Change), & more

  23. What are your ideas on how to build a new worker and economic justice movement? Connecting our fights, building a movement

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