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We are a grassroots organization of architectural workers that advocates for just labor practices and an equitable (built) environment.
We organise in working groups centred around particular themes.
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Green New Deal
We support a federal Green New Deal and are committed to the resolution’s call for a just transition. We focus on organizing for ecological justice as it relates to architectural labor, the built environment, and sustainable futures for all.
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Academia
The Academia Working Group annually gathers the Architecture Beyond Capitalism (ABC) School.
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Unionization
The TAL Unionization Working Group (UWG) is an advocacy, support, and study group whose mission is to promote labor organizing for workers in architecture and related fields. While not ourselves a union, our members have played leading roles in the movement to organize architecture and designer workers since TAL’s inception. As our movement grows, we […]
Events
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Who owns social housing?
Often, we think of mass social housing as something needing large entities—government agencies, philanthropies, or unions—to take on the profit-driven real estate sector. The history of New York City’s housing activism suggests otherwise, that tenants themselves are capable of leading the struggle for affordable and livable cities.
Monday 4/8/24 07:00pm—08:00am EDT
Citygroup
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A Just Transition for Architecture
Architecture & Environmental Justice in a Post-Pandemic World
Friday 11/11/22 12:00pm CDT
Online
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The Architecture Lobby & The Green New Deal
On Climate Change and Design Ethics
Wednesday 3/20/24 05:30pm—06:30pm EDT
CEIS Lobby, Wentworth
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Organizing for Green Social Housing
Guests: New York Communities for Change – Wally Mazon, Architectural Workers United – Andrew Daley
Monday 3/11/24 12:00pm—Tuesday 2/27/24 12:00pm EDT
104b Forsyth St., New York, NY
