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How advocacy groups handle generational leadership transitions

Our worker advocacy organization has been led by the same three people for eight years and younger members are saying we need new leadership and fresh approaches, but the current leaders built this from nothing and aren't ready to step back. We all care about the same issues but we're stuck between honoring what's been built and making space for what could come next.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional knowledge and innovative energy are creating competing claims about who should guide collective action.

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“Where Are You with Labor rights and worker justice?”

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