The IEU attended the official Australian book launch and signing of No Shortcuts: Organising for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey in December.
Jane has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for a local union, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of the only successful multi union, multi year, geographic organising campaigns for the national AFL-CIO.
She is currently a post doctoral research fellow with the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School.