Center for Work and Democracy at ASU

Chris Brooks is back in @jacobin with reflections on the current wildcat strike being undertaken by TSA employees after working for weeks without pay, an action that he refers to as a "brown-bag strike." Read more: jacobin.com/2026/03/tsa-wi…

The biggest meatpacking company on Earth is being rocked by a massive strike. 99% of the workers at this JBS plant voted to walk off the job. Now nearly 4,000 workers with @UFCW are fighting for better, safer jobs.

“The question is not what workers deserve (because every agreement falls short of that goal), but how to structure first agreements so they expand the power needed to win more over time.” -Chris Brooks

You can learn more about “Unions and Electoral Politics” here in @jacobin : x.com/jacobin/status…

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The Center for Working-Class Politics, the Center for Work and Democracy, and @jacobin are proud to present a new report: “Unions and Electoral Politics.” Read it here: images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/upl…

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Gopal is an award-winning author whose new book has been described as “remarkable …bring[ing] to life the stories of Syrians whose political imagination, fearless actions, and astonishing courage, reveal the depths of human solidarity and sacrifice in pursuit of a better world.”

We have a very exciting event coming up on April 14th! Join us for the launch of Anand Gopal’s new book, “Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution” (@SimonBooks ).

Weren’t able to be there for Chris’s talk? You’re in luck. You can stream Chris Brooks’s webinar event, “Reinventing the Wheel: Reforming the UAW, Striking the Big Three, and Organizing the South,“ here on our Youtube channel. youtu.be/k9itdToAyHw?si…

A huge thank you to former UAW Chief Strategist, Chris Brooks, for joining us on campus last week for his talk, “Reinventing the Wheel: Reforming the UAW, Striking the Big Three, and Organizing the South.” We all learned so much!

TOMORROW!

Coming up on April 13, 2026, ASU’s School of Social Transformation is hosting Jason Stanley for the 27th annual John P. Frank Memorial Lecture! Be sure to check out his talk, “Is it Fascism Yet?”

In his latest for @jacobin , Chris Brooks explores a new/old way for unions to approach first contract negotiations: small, faster contracts with room to scale. Learn more here: jacobin.com/2026/03/chipot…

A study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin finds politicians with union backgrounds campaign more actively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them. jacobin.com/2026/03/cwcp-j…

Retirement expert and CWD Senior Research Fellow, Teresa Ghilarducci, has been working on a plan to get more Americans access to retirement accounts for most of her career. Now, we may see her plan come to fruition. Learn more: forbes.com/sites/teresagh…

Every era has its defining labor struggle. Ours is Amazon. jacobin.com/2026/03/organi…

In a new report from the CWD, the CWCP, and @jacobin , authors explore the elections and in-office policies of candidates who are or have been union members. Their conclusion: “union candidates are an untapped political resource.” Read more: jacobin.com/2026/03/cwcp-j…

In his latest for @jacobin , Fong tells it like it is: “The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today's unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.” Read it here: jacobin.com/2026/03/organi…