Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World
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“Here’s the light to illuminate these dark times — an account of how workers take on corporate power and win. Even more inspiring, it’s led by Gen Z. Starbucks Workers United has given new life to the American labor movement, and Jaz Brisack helped make it happen. Essential reading for anyone who cares about tackling economic inequality and saving democracy.”
—Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor and author of Aftershock and Saving Capitalism
“In the last few years, especially after the pandemic, one of the most inspiring things we’ve witnessed is the rise of the labor movement in America. All across the country, workers have been standing up and fighting back against the unprecedented levels of corporate greed that have been taking place. I appreciate Jaz’s contributions in this book, which help us all better understand the aims and goals for a resurgent trade union movement and how workers all over the country can join in solidarity with it.”
—Senator Bernie Sanders
“Jaz has too much hometraining to rename this book, but this is not only a how-to change the world book, it is a percussive, necessary ‘why we must change the world’ book written by an activist who can write their ass off. Mandatory reading for humans in need of a literary elixir.”
—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
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About Jaz
Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder of the Inside Organizer School, which trains workers to unionize. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont, they also worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to Tesla.
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Jaz Notes
The (oversimplified) steps to organize your workplace
jazSo, you want to organize your workplace! Here’s a rough outline of the process, taken from my new book, Get on the Job and Organize: Standing
Organizing Conversations 101
Organizing is built on one-on-one relationships. As a worker organizer, the best way to build these relationships is to be a good coworker and
Union Organizing and the Fight to Save Democracy
Thank you to The Nation for publishing my piece on the role of union organizing in fighting the rise of fascism. “It’s easy to feel