Activists' Corner - Strike Threats

About The Course

We all like to learn and develop skills that can support our trade union activity. This series of sessions will focus on practical tools and skills that you can take back to your workplace.

Throughout Activists’ Corner sessions, you will be able to build your toolkit for building power at work and growing the strength of your union to make meaningful change.

This course is provided online and will be capped at 16 participants to ensure as much participation as possible. All pupils will be provided with a Google Classroom for access to resources, session recordings and materials used.

The sessions will be delivered by a mixture of activists and specialists in their subject and is a great chance to develop all your skills further.

Strike Threats will be delivered by Robert Ovetz, Ph.D. A Lecturer in Sociology at UC Berkeley and Senior Lecturer in Political Science, who teaches Labor Relations in the Master of Public Administration program at San José State University. He focuses on global labor organising strategy and delivers training on preparing credible strike threats and fighting management rights clauses. Robert is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill 2018/Haymarket Press 2019) and We the Elite: Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few (Pluto Press 2022), the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives (Pluto Press, 2020), and co-editor of Real World Labor Volume 4 (Dollars & Sense 2024). He was an Associate Editor and contributor to The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, edited by Immanuel Ness (Routledge, 2022). He writes about worker organizing for Dollars & Sense magazine and The Chief and is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Labor and Society. He can be reached at, rfovetz@riseup.net and his writings can be found here.