Suhauna Hussain at The Los Angeles Times reports on Jane McAlevey - the prominent Labor Organizer, Author and Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley Labor Center, who has passed of multiple myeloma cancer.  McAlevey’s advice to Unions around the world was as simple as it was transformative: Workers should lead the way.  Southern California Union Locals representing Grocery Workers credit McAlevey, who consulted with and worked for various Labor Groups over the years, with fundamentally changing the way they operate, including at the bargaining table, where Workers now are the ones going toe to toe with corporate negotiators. “It’s kind of changed the way we do everything,” United Food & Commercial Workers Local 770 President Kathy Finn, said: “She changed the way I see the Labor Movement.” McAlevey dropped out of college and spent a decade in the Environmental Justice Movement before joining the National AFL-CIO, where she helped to organize Nursing Home Workers, Taxi Drivers, Janitors and City Clerks in Connecticut.  She traveled frequently, working for various Unions that were often locked in contract fights. When she wasn’t on the road, she split her time between New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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