Democracy On The Job: Jaz Brisack

May 29th, 2025

“Democracy should be the norm in every workplace.”

We discuss what it takes to build worker power from scratch and how these efforts can reshape not only our workplaces, but democracy itself.

Jaz Brisack is a union organizer and cofounder of the Inside Organizer School, as well as the author of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World.

Your civic action toolkit recommendations from Jaz are:

1. Organize a union in your workplace

2. Train at Inside Organizer School

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Credits:

Host: Mila Atmos 

Guest: Jaz Brisack

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis