Thread by @preethysiva

Check out anti-racist resources developed specifically for union members at @MigrantRightsCA on how bosses exploit migrant workers and other workers by dividing us, why anti-racist class solidarity is vital for building our power and winning improvements to ALL workers' lives.

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Looking for political union edu resources to build workplace solidarity and power? Speak to your union edu dept and make a training & education plan that advances your plan to organize in your workplace. Not planning on organizing? If you want to win anything real, you should!!

Rob Fairley's Campaign Planning Handbook and Achieving a State of Readiness on @torontolabour website. Manuals to build workplace power & win. If 50% of unions in Ontario implemented these guides we'd have real bargaining power behind demands like decent work, card check etc.

Jane McAlevey's No Shortcuts. @rsgexp & @rls_organizing run training programs like #StrikeSchool for thousands of organizers on how to organize and build majority power in a bounded structure (workplace, neighbourhood) that can be developed and tested for strike-readiness.

A Collective Bargain by @rsgexp profiles how @UTLAnow built majority power to win racial justice & class solidarity demands. Visionary demands and slogans are important - so is building power to back them, forcing those with power to negotiate with us and meet our demands.

McAlevey's No Shortcuts profiles the political education and organizing program by powerhouse union @CTULocal1 that in the words of @stacydavisgates sees the collective agreement/contract as an opportunity to win racial and economic justice for workers AND their communities.

Almost a decade ago at @CLCLabourEd Labour College I learned from Tom Juravich (union research methodology, and corporate campaigns research) & @MornaBallantyne on Theory and Practice of Unions (thinking through labour strategy and what it will take to win). Take their courses!

These resources are developed by organizers who built majority workplace power, are clear on our real enemies, and share a vision of organizing majority power as a solution. These resources are also essential for building anti-racist, feminist class solidarity beyond slogans.

Follow @labornotes and check out their resources - workers are organizing other workers in every sector and their struggles are helpful to study. In Canada @rankandfileca profiles worker-led campaigns with principled and solidarisric class analysis.

If you ask what we need for a better society, the answers are probably obvious if you're on the left. What's not as obvious: how do we build power to stop bleeding and win improvements? The resources above use a programmatic approach to build solidarity and power led by workers.

"Anti-o" resources over the years have become separated from day-to-day union work and turned over to external consultants who are often not union organizers. The work of organizing majority power is essential for winning racial justice demands through workers' collective efforts