"Get on the Job and Organize" - Book Talk with Jaz Brisack
Overview
Join Labor 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.
This event is organized by Labor Studies at SFSU and co-sponsored by the SFSU Labor Archive. It is one of many community-building events organized by SFSU.
The Labor Studies program would like to thank Dennis Houlihan and Mary Conway for generous funding to support this event.
Guest Speaker
Jaz Brisack
Union Organizer and Co-founder of the Inside Organizer School
Jaz Brisack is one of the country's best-known union organizers 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. They are practitioner in residence at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Jaz's success in supporting unions has been featured in Time and the The New York Times.