Organize the Unorganized

  • Build from where we are already strong.

    • Organize large and small organizing blitzes focused on areas of UE concentration.

    • Invest more resources in the Southern Workers’ Assembly/Organize the South efforts.

    • Pay lost time (paid time away from work) to members to work on new organizing and establish UE new organizing teams.

    • Create a network of volunteer UE members who can mentor and advise the early stages of new organizing campaigns, in the model of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC).

    • Organize sister shops of current locals.

    • Develop and expand Wabtec and other blue-collar organizing projects to increase our density in the manufacturing sector.

    • Research strategic organizing targets.

    • Build from industries of strength to bring in new locals with Black, Brown, and other workers of color.

    • Establish a retiree program to keep retired members engaged in UE campaigns. 

  • Bring new shops into the UE from across many industries.

    • Follow the model of UE Local 150 and build new locals through direct membership sign-up with dues when government certification is not viable, such as public sector workers in red states, gig workers, small shops, and workers in difficult, historically non-union industries.

    • Create an “Organizing Summer School,” where UE members will have the opportunity to work on an organizing campaign for a few months.

    • Affiliate independent unions.

    • Create infrastructure for the collection of voluntary dues during any organizing campaign, with funds raised being administered by the corresponding organizing committee.