When management is breaking the rules left and right, quietly filing a grievance won't cut it. Fighting grievances isn’t only about how well you argue your case. It’s also about organizing members to build pressure on management. This workshop for stewards and union reps will focus on how to win creatively without going to arbitration. We'll hear from health care workers who took collective action, fought back against discipline and an unfair firing, and won.
Unions can be powerful champions for the whole working class. Hear how some are fighting for creative contract demands to tackle the crises of student debt, incarceration, and housing, and even demanding a four-day work week.
This workshop will begin with a short song by Jayanni Webster, CWA Local 3866.
Strong contracts are won with the power we build away from the bargaining table. Learn how to develop high-participation contract campaigns that give you the leverage to win your demands and grow the union.
Hear how unions got in gear to participate in Minnesota's January 23 strike and economic blackout. How did the rapid-response networks, the defensive side of the fight, and the workers' movement, the offensive side, relate to each other and help build power? What was the interplay between the 2020 George Floyd Uprising and the resistance to ICE? How did public schools become hubs of resistance?
