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Stephen Lerner

Stephen Lerner is a fellow at Georgetown Universities Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and was the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign.

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Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, Joseph A. McCartin

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How new approaches to worker organizing are finding success.

Joseph A. McCartin, Stephen Lerner, Sarita Gupta

With all that unions are up against, only a radically different approach can help us start winning again.

Stephen Lerner

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With Trump’s election and the global growth of far-right nationalist movements, unions that have the power to challenge corporate dominance, politically and in the workplace, have never been more needed or more...
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