Organizer Training

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Our CWA organizing model is heavily worker led, which requires education, discipline, and practice.

To achieve this, worker organizers must learn the basics of what unions are, their legal rights, the organizing process, crafting their own union vision, having organizing conversations with coworkers, building the structure of their union, and much more.

The CODE-CWA Organizer Training program is designed to teach worker organizers these fundamental skills so they can take agency at work into their own hands.

Staff and union members co-teach three recurring public classes:

  • Class 1: Intro to Unions and Organizing
  • Class 2: Organizing Your Coworkers
  • Class 3: Building Your Organizing Committee

Worker organizers also get further training as they work with CWA staff and other union members over the course of their specific union campaign around direct action, strategy & tactics, campaign messaging, bargaining, political education, and more.

View and register for our upcoming trainings!

Dive deeper into organizing history, theory, and practice with our recommended further study list.

Learn more about your rights to organize under labor law.