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Peter Olney

Peter Olney is retired Organizing Director of the ILWU. He has been a labor organizer for 50 years working for multiple unions before landing at the ILWU in 1997. For three years he was the Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California. With co-editor Glenn Perušek they have edited Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr and available now from PM Press

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May 8, 2022

Peter and the Peloton!

May 2, 2022

Seize the Time: Biden’s Labor Board and a New Workers’ Up-Rising

April 6, 2022

Staten Island workers vote ‘yes’ for first Amazon union in U.S.

February 25, 2022

Wake Up Everybody! Midterms Are Almost Here

February 2, 2022

Organizing the Unorganized and Union Transformation – An Interview with Jeff Hermanson

January 10, 2022

Olney Odyssey # 19 California, Christina and Beyond

October 1, 2021

Think Bigger: New possibilities for building workers’ power at Amazon

June 13, 2021

To win in 2022 and 2024 we must connect the rural and the urban – find out how

June 7, 2021

Labor Must ‘Block and Build’ to Defend Democracy

May 24, 2021

A call to action….

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This site is operated by two friends, Peter Olney and Robert Gumpert, introduced to each other by Jeff Stansbury. We thank the family, Gretzel Stansbury, Kevin Stansbury and Gwendolyn Stansbury for allowing us to run the site in his memory.

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