CIWO News - November 2022

CIWO News

November 2022

Building a Movement for the Common Good

NPQ x BCG Virtual Roundtable

November 16, 2022 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm ET

In this roundtable hosted by Nonprofit Quarterly, leaders will reflect on Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG), a multi-levered, intersectional approach to racial, gender, climate, and economic justice. Join us to learn how to build new forms of collective power and advance a multiracial movement that can take on 21st century capitalism. The roundtable will be moderated by Rithika Ramamurthy, Economic Justice Editor at Nonprofit Quarterly.

Roundtable speakers:

Saqib Bhatti, Action Center on Race and the Economy Ramon Cruz, Sierra Club

Sheri Davis, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers School of Management & Labor Relations

Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union

Cindy Estrada, United Auto Workers

Puya Gerami, Recovery for All Connecticut

Alex Han, Bargaining for the Common Good

Anjali Madgula, Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Emma Tai, United Working Families

Todd Wolfson, Rutgers AAUP-AFT

This event is part of a larger collaboration between BCG and Nonprofit Quarterly. Click here to access the full article series, Building a Movement for the Common Good, authored by movement leaders actively engaged in BCG work.

Build the Bench: "Grief and Resilience in Our Movements"

On September 28, 2022, the STOKE Collective facilitated their workshop "Grief and Resilience in Our Movements" for Build the Bench leaders. This session was a condensed version of a larger 3 hour workshop on how we collectivize and integrate grief, healing, and resilience into our movement practices. The workshop included conversations about how systemic racism and oppressions create conditions of grief at the individual, community, and movement wide level.

CIWO is hoping to provide this session again in the near future so that other folks in our network can contribute to these important conversations.

Always Essential Fellowship Launched September 2022

CIWO has partnered with United for Respect & the Always Essential Coalition for the 2022 Always Essential Fellowship. The goal of Always Essential Fellowship is to expose and challenge essential worker leaders to learn new skills, tools, and power analyses that allow them to deepen their understanding of their roles in the larger labor movement and connect with one another to win campaigns that make concrete improvements in the lives of all essential workers.

The Fellowship runs from September 2022 to February 2023.

A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within

Edited by Tamara L. Lee, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Naomi R Williams, Maite Tapia

In A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within, the editors embrace the tenets of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, assembling and weaving counternarratives to the traditional ways in which labor stories are told. They recognize and deconstruct the false realities that thrive in color-blind approaches to labor and employment issues. This edited volume uplifts the diversity of knowledge production and voices through the storytelling of artists, activists, union organizers, and scholars engaged in, and committed to, social justice within the world of work.

Click here to purchase the book!

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Center for Innovation in Worker Organization

School of Management and Labor Relations

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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