CIWO News and Events

In These Times writes about the life and career of Marilyn Sneiderman, who recently retired as executive director of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

America’s Work Force Union Podcast features an interview with Marilyn Sneiderman of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

In These Times reports on a Bargaining for the Common Good campaign in Minnesota, quoting Marilyn Sneiderman of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

The Conversation publishes an article about Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation members going on strike. The Center for Innovation in Worker Organization is cited.

Convergence Magazine publishes an article co-authored by Liz Perlman of AFSCME 3299 and Sandra Jeong Lane of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Nonprofit Quarterly reflects on the roundtable, “Building a Movement for the Common Good,” featuring Sheri Davis of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization.

Over the past half-century, labor activists Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner have been responsible for spurring major strategic advances in union organizing and movement building. In this episode of the "Reinventing Solidarity Podcast," they discuss their recent New Labor Forum article, titled “Making Hope and History Rhyme: A New Worker Movement from the Shell of the Old“.

In this New Labor Forum article, authors Marilyn Sneiderman and Stephen Lerner reflect on the lessons of the past half-century & assess the strategic challenges and opportunities confronting a new generation of workers, activists, and organizers.

In this piece in The Progressive Magazine, author Sarah Jaffe describes how the CIO benefited from the momentum generated by overlapping protest movements: tenant, immigrant, and anti-racist organizing, all in response to the massive crisis of the Great Depression. Against this background of desperation, the organizers of the 1930s were willing to put resources behind a new path for organizing. Marilyn Sneiderman says that is what unions and organizers should emulate. “This is a time for some massive experimentation, some radical risk-taking, pushing every boundary.”

In this article series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and Nonprofit Quarterly, learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis.