Do you find fundraising intimidating? Are you scared of asking supporters for money? Don't be! Fundraising is a fun superpower, and also a necessary skill for scaling up reform organizing, running for union office, and many other organizing endeavors. Learn what it takes and how to do it well.
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.
Did you know that under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, you have free speech rights within your union? Learn what your speech rights are, how to know if they have been violated, and how to enforce them.
Reforming one local is hard enough, but what about an international union? Leaders from reform caucuses undertaking this task will talk about best practices and strategies for how activists can organize around international union conventions, leadership elections, national contract campaigns, and more.
You want a stronger union. Is it time for a reform caucus? How would you get started on solid ground? This workshop, based on a new Labor Notes guide, will help you plan first steps to a lasting movement for a democratic union that can beat the boss.
Teachers unions met 14 years ago to chart a path to union reform and organizing through reform caucuses. What was the purpose, and what were the outcomes? What role does the ongoing network serve now? And what can it teach us about the role of worker networks in transforming our unions?
Contract time is an opportunity for a rank-and-file caucus to expand its reach within the union and demonstrate a more powerful way to fight the boss. Hear how caucus activists built successful contract campaigns despite opposition from local union leaders, and grew their network in the process.
How does the work of a union reform caucus develop, after you win campaigns against the boss or get a slate into union office? Learn from veteran organizers in three of the longest-running reform caucuses about how their caucuses reflected and evolved in the unions they helped transform.
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act provides a bill of rights for union members, requires unions to publicly disclose certain details about governance, and regulates union elections and trusteeships of locals by international unions. Learn how to use the law to build rank-and-file power in your union, and how to defend that power once you’ve built it.
