Night of Ideas—Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
Sat, Apr 05
|SF Public Library - Deaf Services Center
Why have American workers failed so far to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries? Let’s explore the historical perspectives, examine social and political policies, and get inside a new kind of unionism
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2025, 9:00 PM – Apr 06, 2025, 10:00 PM
SF Public Library - Deaf Services Center, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
About The Event
As part of San Francisco's Night of Ideas 2025
Why have American workers failed so far to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries? Let’s explore the historical perspectives, examine social and political policies, and get inside a new kind of unionism—one born from the shell of the old—with Professor Kim Voss of UC Berkeley Sociology, Steven C. Pitts of UC Berkeley’s Labor Center, and Jaz Brisack, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements and the author of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World. FREE
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