Janice has been involved with union and community organising in the United States for many years developing radical initiatives to get unions to engage with communities outside of the workplace as well as enabling local communities to realise their won potential and power. Until 2003 she was the organising director at North East Action, the hub of a regional network of statewide progressive coalitions and citizen action groups. Janice is author of, Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream. Janice's experiences fit in well with the work of trades union councils which have been shown to be pivotal links between unions and the local community in the campaigns against the cuts and in the build up to the March for the Alternative.