{"id":7928,"date":"2025-01-24T10:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=7928"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:04:35","slug":"socialist-seminar-eric-blanc-we-are-the-union-how-worker-to-worker-organizing-is-revitalizing-labor-and-winning-big","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/event\/socialist-seminar-eric-blanc-we-are-the-union-how-worker-to-worker-organizing-is-revitalizing-labor-and-winning-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Seminar &#8211; Eric Blanc We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>Eric Blanc, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Rutgers University, organizer trainer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, and author of <em>Red State Revolt,<\/em> presents a riveting account of the recent wave of workplace organizing\u2014from Starbucks to Amazon and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blanc explores the rise of &#8220;worker-to-worker unionism,&#8221; a grassroots model that empowers rank-and-file leadership, utilizes digital tools, and builds scalable power to tackle economic exploitation, racial injustice, and workplace authoritarianism. Don\u2019t miss this opportunity to learn how young worker leaders are turning unions back into powerful movements for change.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7936,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[122],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-7928","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-past-events-events"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-02-12 13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-02-12 15:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"1524","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/7928\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}