the future of work: connecting our fights for worker and economic justice
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The Future of Work:Connecting Our Fights for
Worker and Economic Justice
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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
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Our main point
The nature of work has changed,
fundamentally and forever
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Workers in the US used to take 3 things
for granted
Either way
You can get a job close to home You can get training
In a bad economyYou may lose your job for a while But while you wait you can get
unemployment
In a good economyYou have a job, and a boss If you get enough people together you
can organize for a contract and raise
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But there has been a historic shift in the workplace
…and not for the better
Contingent/contract labor
Long-term, structural
unemployment
Linking of global labor
markets
Unsecure, temporary
work
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First is a shift in the nature of employment
1/3 Contingent
Share of continent labor is up 50% in last 10 years
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This is not a natural phenomenon
…it’s driven by a corporate business model
Walmart hires subcontractor
Subcontractor hires another subcontractor
Subcontractors hire workers
Workers don’t know their real
employer
Walmart profits
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Yikes!
…this is not good for workers at all!
1/3 of workers have lost ability to bargain
Wages have declined
Weak U.S. safety net irrelevant
The 1% economy is bad and getting worse for
workers
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Organizing corporate supply chains and corporations
With Iowa CCI, Sunflower Community Action, and Fuerza Laboral
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Second, the shift in the nature of unemployment
The new normal is long periods of unemployment interrupted by brief employment 40% of the unemployed
have been so for 27 weeks or longer
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Rise of Structural Unemployment – from circumstantial to structural and from short-term to long-term
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Structural Racism is built into the labor market
Black unemployment• 2 times higher than whites• Lasts three times longer
Latino unemployment• 1.5 times higher than whites
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Fighting structural unemployment and racism
With VOCAL-NY, TakeAction Minnesota and AMOS
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Third, the linking of local and global labor markets
The only work that will remain can’t be outsourced
11% of the Mexican population lives in the U.S.
Outsourcing will continue to move to India and the Philippines
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Here’s another main point
Unless you are in the 1%, then we are all in the same boat and it’s sinking
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Fighting for Economic Justice
With Community Voices Heard, Michigan United and Maine People’s Alliance
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Three big implications of this analysis
For the Future of Work in America
Expand our
organizing
Re-imagine
the safety
net
Reinvent bargaining with the real boss
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There are 3 paths we can take
Keep what we have?
Go back to golden era?
Reimagine the economy Only way forward
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Only way forward = build a long-term agenda & new economy
• Take power away from corporations and 1%• Get power for people and public
Structural reforms that change power relations
• Moves away from confronting and petitioning power• To building and taking power
Long-term agenda is about power, not just issues
• Provides direction• Does not provide a map with each step lined out
Long-term agenda is a compass, not a blueprint
• This is an agenda for all progressives• We need to recruit people and groups to join us
NPA’s work is one piece of the puzzle, need allies
• We have to build a lot more power• This means building power differently
We can’t win by doing what we have done before
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Building a New Economy
With Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, IIRON Student Network, and PUSH Buffalo
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It’s time to move from defense to offense…and build a new worker movement!
Win structural change
Advance our ideas
Build powerful groups
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Connecting Our Fights, Building a Movement
With Gar Alperovitz (Democracy Collaborative), Saket Soni (National Guestworkers Alliance), David Kimball (Center for Community Change), & more
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Connecting our fights, building a movement
What are your ideas on how to build a new worker and economic justice movement?
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