How do workers build power?

Join author and organizer Daniel Gross, co-president of the Blue Bottle Independent Union Alex Reyes, and fellow workers for a practical discussion on taking direct action, building solidarity, and reimagining work.

Across the country, we’ve been meeting with workers from a wide range of industries: baristas, rideshare drivers, warehouse workers, big tech employees, retail staff, and beyond. These conversations have brought together people at different stages of their organizing journeys to share experiences, learn from past movements, and meet with fellow workers wanting fundamental change.

We’ll use ideas from Daniel Gross’s Unions of Our Own as a jumping-off point, but no prior reading or experience is required.

3124 Shattuck Ave.,
Berkeley, CA 94705

Unions of Our Own provides a radically new, step-by-step framework for workers who want to dramatically improve their jobs—and dream of bigger changes too. In this new book out now from Haymarket, Daniel Gross, co-author of Labor Law for the Rank & Filer and a founding organizer of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union and of Brandworkers explores the eight fundamental building blocks of unions that sustain. Through proven tools, personal stories from campaigns, vivid history, and real-world examples, Unions of Our Own offers a practical and powerful approach for workers to design their own unions and win.