Peter Olney is retired Organizing Director of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union. He has been a labor organizer for 50 years working for multiple unions before landing at the ILWU in 1997. For three years he was the Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California.
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What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15
Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
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Labor's 2024 Political Dilemma
Biden’s support for the genocide is indefensible, but we still need him to win.
Rand Wilson and Peter Olney
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Lessons From a Radical Past: One Man’s Journey Into the Factories in the 1970s
A veteran of the New Left's turn to the factories tells his story.
Peter Olney