How do you work to bridge racial divisions in your workplace? Why is this work so central to labor organizing? Come hear from organizers who have been at the heart of organizing their workplaces and what they did to build unity despite the challenges they faced. Spend time workshopping the challenges you yourself must overcome in your campaign and what steps you can take to advance.
Learn about organizing in remote workplaces! Workers who have organized their remote workplaces will speak to their experiences and answer your biggest questions. How do I talk to someone I’ve never spoken to about organizing? How do I branch out of my team to other teams? How do I build relationships? What kind of collective action can we take online?
This training will focus on preparing for and executing a potential strike or work stoppage. Participants will hear from workers who have recently organized successful strikes and learn how to democratically and effectively identify issues that are widely and deeply felt; set bottom lines for triggering a strike; talk with co-workers about the conditions and impacts of striking, learn about and respond to any concerns or questions they have, and ask them to commit to voting "yes" in a strike vote; track strike commitments; hold a strike vote; organize picket lines; decide when to end, and more!
From trans rights to Palestinian freedom, labor is central to every fight for liberation. Instead of seeing these as separate issues and demands, how do we make the question of solidarity central to our fellow workers and our unions? How can we use our shared struggle as workers to overcome the prejudices and hatred that have seeped into the fabric of our society? Hear from workers who are answering these questions in their organizing and join discussions as we wrestle with the big topics of our time.
Get tips and tricks for getting journalists to cover your campaign fight and how to talk with them once you have their attention. Plus, find out how to build followers on social media and get them to turn out to support your struggle against the boss.
Millions of non-union workers are faced with the heightened risk of deportation because of Trump's cruel and extra-legal policies. It's important, now more than ever, to build solidarity and power at the workplace. This training will focus on worker rights on the job if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) show up at your workplace and how you and your co-workers can demand employer protections for all workers.
Learn how to develop rank-and-file research committees to conduct strategic corporate research through methods developed by the Strategic Corporate Research team at the UMass Amherst Labor Center. This is a hands-on workshop where participants will use case studies to explore sources of corporate information learn how this information can be used to develop and execute an effective contract campaign and win a strike.
