Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

(runs duplicate sessions from 1 and 2)

Block 1:

1:1 Organizing: Structured Conversations

Learn and practice the skills of effective conversations that move our members to action.

Creative Contract Interpretation

You don’t need to be a lawyer! Learn important skills for reading your contract, thinking about how you can interpret it strategically to improve your conditions.

Planning campaigns around grievances and issues

How to seize the opportunity of grievances to build escalating collective action against the boss

Block 2:

1:1 Organizing Tool Kit: Answering Hard Questions and Objections

Learn and practice how to respond to difficult questions when organizing. Get practice being an active listener, answering hard questions, and having better conversations.

Mapping and Leader Identification

Mapping is an essential tool to systematize your union’s organizing practices. In this class we’ll discus how mapping helps us thoroughly organize our worksites.

Signing Up Members in Open Shops

Internal organizing skills talking to your coworkers about union membership in an open shop. We’ll talk about 1:1 conversations, answering hard questions, and understanding what it means to be a union member.

Block 3:

Participatory and engaging bargaining

Discussing open bargaining as a way to engage your base and escalate your campaigns.

Mapping the Workplace and Identifying Leaders

Mapping is an essential tool to systematize your union’s organizing practices. In this class we’ll discuss how mapping helps us thoroughly organize our worksites.

Planning campaigns around grievances and issues

How to seize the opportunity of grievances to build escalating collective action against the boss