Milwaukee, June 20: Organizer Training 101

Where: Student Union of UW-Milwaukee, Room 191. Building is located at 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, 53212.

What:
This is a two day course on building power in your workplace from the bottom up. It focuses on techniques for building a committee of workers who are confident and capable of addressing issues in the workplace, and for overcoming obstacles like worker apathy, anxiety, and the bosses’ counter-organizing efforts. Trainers from Minneapolis will be coming in for an intensive exploration of direct action, labor law, workplace mapping and building organizational skills.

Registration is required for the event, so please take a moment to register, and let us know about dietary or childcare needs, at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14mTTu-8wtSQf5u5Ug01XumcpObNW_m_w-6_MNFS9HPI/viewform?usp=send_form

There will be a $10-$25 sliding scale registration fee to cover food and materials. However, no one will be turned away due to an inability to pay.

You do not have to be a member of the IWW to attend. The skills built in this workshop will be useful to anyone interested in building power on their job, whether it is in the context of an IWW campaign, an independent union, the mainstream labor movement or another formation. If you can, bring your co-workers to make the process of organizing faster.
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The IWW is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities. IWW members are organizing to win better conditions today and build a world with economic democracy tomorrow. We want our workplaces run for the benefit of workers and communities rather than for a handful of bosses and executives.

We are the Industrial Workers of the World because we organize industrially.

This means we organize all workers producing the same goods or providing the same services into one union, rather than dividing workers by skill or trade, so we can pool our strength to win our demands together. Since the IWW was founded in 1905, we have made significant contributions to the labor struggles around the world and have a proud tradition of organizing across gender, ethnic and racial lines – a tradition begun long before such organizing was popular.

We invite you to become a member whether or not the IWW happens to have representation rights in your workplace. We organize the worker, not the job, and recognize that unions are not about government certification or employer recognition but about workers coming together to address common concerns.

Sometimes this means refusing to work with dangerous equipment and chemicals.

Sometimes it means striking or signing a contract. Other times it mean agitating around particular issues or grievances in a workplace or industry.