Daniel Gross presents "Unions of Our Own"

Daniel Gross presents "Unions of Our Own"

Tuesday, May 19th 2026
7:00 pm
Red Emma's
An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.

Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even impossible. We imagine a different world, too, but billionaires are doing their best to make things worse.

In Unions of Our Own, veteran labor organizer and cofounder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union Daniel Gross provides a radically new, step-by-step framework for workers who want to dramatically improve their jobs—and dream of bigger changes too. It reveals and puts into your hands the eight fundamental building blocks of a union that meets your needs and values.

Through proven tools, Gross’s personal stories from campaigns, vivid history, and real-world examples, Unions of Our Own offers a practical, accessible, and empowering philosophy on how to design your own union and win.

Daniel Gross has spent over twenty years building unions at his jobs and accompanying thousands of workers building unions at theirs. He is the co-author with Staughton Lynd of Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law, a classic passed around by autonomy minded workers generation after generation, as well as of the graphic booklet Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks with Lynd and cartoonist Tom Keough. He helped convene the groundbreaking IWW Starbucks Workers Union in 2004, as well as Brandworkers, a deeply-rooted worker center for immigrant food manufacturing workers in New York and New Jersey. Daniel has served on the board of the National Lawyers Guild, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, and was active with the Immigrant Worker Justice Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. He's currently a member and a union-builder on staff at the Solidarity Union Network (SUN), an organization of emerging unions that are led-and-operated by workers, powered by direct action, and aimed at fundamental change.

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