What is sexual harassment? How can you create a safe and welcoming work and union environment? Find answers and learn how to engage in active bystander intervention when you witness sexual harassment. Through role-playing exercises, gain hands-on experience using realistic scenarios for the building trades work environment that can be adapted to any workplace.
You know you need to get more of your co-workers involved in your organizing, but are you struggling to reach (or even find) them? Whether you're launching a bottom-up campaign, building a reform caucus, or running for union office, learn how to systematically build a list of your co-workers from scratch, and how to make the best use of it.
Power inside our workplaces is critical to labor’s future. Management frequently restructures work, introduces new technologies, and promotes ideologies that undermine our collective voice and power. If your management has introduced new technologies or restructuring programs (e.g. lean, 5S, Six Sigma), downsizing, understaffing, speed-up, or “continuous improvement,” come learn a strategy developed by labor educator Charley Richardson. Though Charley died in 2013, his work continues to build worker solidarity and union power.
We can learn a lot from our mistakes and those of others. In this workshop we’ll follow a grievance handling from beginning to end and ask: What went wrong? What should have been done? We start with the initial report of a disciplinary suspension and follow step by step, identifying mistakes which could have been damaging to the union’s case. The goal is to be persuasive and have a principled settlement. Come laugh and leave reminded of what to avoid. Presenter Richard De Vries confesses to having made all of the mistakes.
