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.