Joe Burns' latest book, Class Struggle Unionism, focuses on how we can create a more militant, democratic and fighting labor movement.

How should workers relate to the union establishment which often does not want to fight? How much should the labor movement prioritize broader class demands versus shop floor struggle? How can we revive militancy and union power in the face of corporate power and a legal system set up against us?

Class struggle unionism is the belief that our union struggle exists within a larger struggle between an exploiting billionaire class and the working class which actually produces the goods and services in society.

Order a copy of Class Struggle Unionism here.

Join us for an in-person event with Joe Burns and local labor activists and organizers to discuss these themes from the book and how we can rebuild a fighting labor movement in Chicago and beyond.

****Masks and proof of vaccination are required for all attendees. Doors will open at 5:30 PM.***

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Speakers:

Joe Burns is a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer with over 25 years experience negotiating labor agreements. He is currently the Director of Collective Bargaining for the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA. He graduated from the New York University School of Law. Prior to law school he worked in a public sector hospital and was president of his AFSCME Local. He is the author of Class Struggle Unionism, Strike Back: Rediscovering Militant Tactics to Fight the Attacks on Public Employee Unions and Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.

Moselean Parker is an elementary teacher from McKay Elementary, a member of the Chicago Teachers Union executive board and a veteran organizer with the Caucus of Rank and File Educators.

Citlali Soto is a member of the Bargaining Committee of SEIU Local 73 from the 2019 strike and school security guard in Chicago.

More speakers to be announced soon. . .

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This event is cosponsored by the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, Haymarket Books, Labor Notes, SEIU Local 73, and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.