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Get on the Job and Organize

Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World

Introduction by Jaz Brisack / Read by Em Grosland

About The Book

For fans of Fight Like Hell and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces.

Get on the Job and Organize is a compelling, inspirational narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, telling the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement, Jaz Brisack argues that while workers often organize when their place of work is toxic, it’s equally important to organize when you love your job.

With an accessible voice and profound insight, Brisack puts everything into the context of America’s long tradition of labor organizing and shows us how we too can organize our workplaces, from how to educate yourself and your colleagues, to what backlash can be expected and how to fight it, to what victory looks like even if the union doesn’t necessarily “win.”

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APR 30
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Square Books
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The Commonwealth Club
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JUN 1
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Berkeley City Hall
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Berkeley, CA 94704
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Buffalo, NY 14206
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Red Emma's
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About The Author

John Logan
Jaz Brisack

Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder 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.

About The Reader

Em Grosland

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (April 29, 2025)
  • Runtime: 11 hours and 24 minutes
  • ISBN13: 9781668122013

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