Worker organizing is surging at the moment, but the path to unionizing can often be murky and overwhelming, and most union efforts fall short or fail to get off the ground. In Unions of Our Own, veteran labor organizer and co-founder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Daniel Gross reveals the eight building blocks needed to make real change at work, and even in the world.

According to Mark Bray, "Daniel’s vast experience organizing with workers comes through in every page of a book that is sure to become an instant classic in an era of increasingly chaotic politics and economics."

Drawing on over twenty years of experience in the labor movement and careful study of historic campaigns, Daniel argues not for cookie-cutter unions controlled from above, but for unions where workers design, test through struggle, and refine models our own.

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Speakers:

Daniel Gross is a member and union-builder on staff at the Solidarity Union Network (SUN), a new organization of emerging unions that are led and operated by workers. A veteran labor organizer, he is the co-author of Labor Law for the Rank & Filer and Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks. Daniel was a founding organizer of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union and of Brandworkers, a worker center for immigrant workers in metro New York’s food manufacturing industry.

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series investigating the complicated and largely invisible history of the New York Police Department.

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