We Are The Union Reading Group Launch with Eric Blanc, Kim Kelly, and Moe Mills
Start: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM GMT
A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
Host Contact Info: politicaleducation@dsacommittees.org

What: Launch event for a national and international reading group on the book We Are the Union, featuring a discussion with its author Eric Blanc, labor writer Kim Kelly (author, Fight Like Hell), and Moe Mills of Starbucks Workers United.
When: March 3, 2025, 8:30 ET/ 5:30 PT
Sponsors: Democratic Socialists of America's National Labor Commission and Political Education Committee, Young Democratic Socialists of America, Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, and Organizing for Power
Details: Hundreds of workers and organizers across the US and the world will come together during March and April to discuss the book and its practical ideas for scaling up grassroots unionism. All participants in the study group will receive a 50% off discount on the book. Further details on the format, further discussion dates, and receiving discounted copies will be provided to all those who sign up for the study group launch. Note: participants are not expected to have started reading the book by March 3.
About We Are the Union: An inspiring wave of bottom-up workplace organizing—from Starbucks stores to Amazon warehouses to southern auto factories—has thrust unionization into the national spotlight. By analyzing this surge and telling the stories of the courageous workers driving it forward, Eric Blanc’s new book makes a case for how to overcome business as usual in both corporate America and organized labor. He shows that recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. As United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain puts it, “We Are the Union is an urgently needed blueprint for how we beat the billionaire class. Every worker should read this book."