Well, Muir Beach,
Posted on 07/08/2024 2:58:20 AM PDT by Jaysin
Jane F. McAlevey, a fierce labor organizer and scholar who trained tens of thousands of workers across the globe in strategies for taking charge of and shaping their unions, died on Sunday at her cabin in Muir Beach, Calif. She was 59.
Her stepbrother Mitchell Rotbert said the cause was multiple myeloma.
Ms. McAlevey (pronounced MACK-a-leevee) dedicated her life to increasing working class power. She believed that worker-driven unions — led from the bottom up rather from the top down — were the most effective engines to combat economic inequality.
In her writings, including for The Nation, as what the magazine described as its “strikes correspondent,” and in frequent media interviews and podcasts, Ms. McAlevey became a vocal critic of what she saw as the complacency, ineptitude and corporate collusion of many U.S. labor leaders.
“What almost no union does is actually organize their members as members in their own communities to build community power,” she said in an interview for this obituary last November. “I teach workers to take over their unions and change them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Pretty much every one of her accolades and accomplishments have contributed to the decline of the USA
"She also worked with immigrant rights organizations, tenant groups and climate activists......"
"She also drew about 4,500 participants over four years to workshops at the U.C. Berkeley Labor Center, where she was a senior policy fellow"
"Growing up in suburban Sloatsburg, N.Y., where her father was mayor, Ms. McAlevey accompanied him to campaign events, civil rights marches and protests against the Vietnam War."
"In college, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Ms. McAlevey was drawn into protests against tuition hikes and was elected student body president"
"After a decade in the environmental justice movement, Ms. McAlevey joined the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to lead an innovative multi-union campaign organizing nursing home workers, taxi drivers, janitors and city clerks in Stamford, Conn., a corporate hub with few union members at the time."
"Labor and progressive groups waste energy on “feel good” mobilizing and “eventism,” such as rallies of supporters and news conferences, Ms. McAlevey contended. She advocated “deep organizing” — patient, one-on-one conversations to persuade indifferent or hostile workers."
So its true...Leftism IS a cancer...
How bourgoise of her.
you really don’t think that Pradeet Singhgabahaddasin who spends his day dismantling old computers to recover gold/copper/aluminum and other metals in a shack in Bangladesh has ever heard of her?
She “empowered” workers all over the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like, all over!
weird that I was more empowered in life by my mean drill sergeants and my tough First Sergeant at Drum than anything this woman could dream of
“died on Sunday at her CABIN in Muir Beach”
So you don’t think she was living the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski style of cabin life? lol
Unions cause cancer
Well, Muir Beach,
I certainly have never heard of her.
A true Marxist/Communist to the core
A good drill sergeant will leave a lasting impression.
Sounds like this woman was just spreading commie ideas.
That’s the basis of the whole scam - big talk about helping the “little guy” while actually helping oneself to the treasure.
very Stalinist when you think about it!
Thank God the NYT let us know how to pronounce her name. We might have offended her.
Did she get the jibby-jab?
Minor correction.
Apparently not only do “ the good die young”. Byebye.
You just know she had a copy of “Rules for Radicals” on her bedstand.
CHECK
I saw her photo for half a second before the website switched to sign in mode. Not hideously ugly like most leftists so there is that I suppose. The only reason the slimes published this obit is because she was a fellow traveler. As stated above I doubt many workers knew of her and until now we Freepers are first learning of her existence.
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