January 29, 2026
Welcome back to We Stood Up!
This issue looks different from our usual focus on a single worker’s story. We wanted to uplift the power people have when they come together as a collective—because lasting change doesn’t happen with only quick fixes. It requires building organizing infrastructure that can be acted on at scale.
So we’re revisiting an article by PowerSwitch Action’s Lauren Jacobs and Elly Matsumura, who share four lessons from building statewide worker power: take the fight directly to the villain, organize the whole person, operate at multiple levels of geography, and forge multiracial feminist coalitions.
These strategic insights come alive in the worker stories that follow—from feminist nonprofits where the politics didn’t match the practice, to rideshare drivers confronting app company extraction, to journalists and farmworkers refusing to let fear silence them.
Do you have a story to tell about building a better workplace? Share it with us here!
