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Join me for two talks in London and Dublin this November 2024.

How Can First-Person Narratives of Work and Workers’ Inquiry Aid Organizing? Join us Friday, June 21st from 6:00-8:00PM in Rochester, NY...

Blue Bottle Workers Launch Independent Union. Read Five Questions with an Organizer.

Troublemaking Goes International... a review of Troublemaking by Jamie Woodcock and Lydia Hughes of Notes from Below.

Read my latest article "Labor Education for All Workers" over at New Politics!

A new edition of Real World Labor is out now with Dollars & Sense magazine and Kevin Van Meter is proud to be one of the editors!

Kevin Van Meter recently joined COVER for a seminar on The American Worker.

New Politics has just released "Searching for The American Worker" by Kevin Van Meter online for the reading public.

Dollars and Sense Magazine has just released "Management Rights, Workers Wronged" by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter online.

New edition of Real World Labor to be published by Dollars & Sense.

Collected works of author, labor educator, and union organizer Kevin Van Meter.

"Searching for The American Worker" will appear this summer.

A steward’s work is never done. And it’s often challenging work, especially when representing difficult members.

A workshop on first-person narratives and workers' inquiry. Offered Spring 2023 and thereafter.

Take a read of "Advice to new labor organizers" in The Chief by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter.

Read of "Management Rights, Workers Wronged" by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter in the new issue of Dollars and Sense.

The management rights clause in our union bargaining agreements is standing in our way of workplace democracy and fighting climate change.

Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Burgerville Workers' have a few lessons to offer independent unions.

New article on workplace democracy for New Politics.

American Worker is a project to document the history of workers' inquiry and first-person narratives written by workers about their...