"Get on the Job and Organize" - Book Talk with Jaz Brisack

Join Labor and Employment Studies on May 6th at 2 p.m. in the J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460 (LIB 460), for a thought-provoking conversation with Jaz Brisack, founding member of Starbucks Workers United and the author of Get on the Job and Organize, who will share their stories and insights about effective organizing and the modern labor movement. 

Guest Speaker

Jaz Brisack 
Union Organizer and Co-founder of the Inside Organizer School

Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and co-founder of the Inside Organizer School, which trains workers to unionize. After spending one year at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, they got a job as a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, becoming a founding member of Starbucks Workers United and helping organize the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. As the organizing director for Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont, they also worked with organizing committees at companies ranging from Ben & Jerry’s to Tesla.