HOW TO GET INVOLVED

Playing a strategic role in contributing to the success of organizing is the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council's top priority. The Labor Council aims to provide support to local unions as they change to organize through training, networking, and campaign assistance. Through the Labor Council's Organizing Committee, affiliate unions come together to share resources and technical skills with one another, leveraging their individual efforts into a greater combined whole. Creating a favorable political environment and building community support for the rights of working people to organize for justice both within their workplaces and in the community is our single mission and focus.

Organizing Committee

Through bi-monthly meetings, local unions committed to organizing share best practices, resources and provide technical assistance to one another. Meetings also provide an opportunity for locals to specify upcoming resource needs. The Labor Council provides support to local unions by providing volunteers for house visits, political and community support, media outreach, mobilizations and delegations to employers.

Building Public Support for the Right to Organize

Building public support for organizing campaigns sends a powerful message to anti-union employers. By enlisting the critical support of community leaders, elected officials and members of the faith community, the Labor Council helps to give working people the courage to organize and remain united in the face of employer intimidation and harassment. Through political action and building strategic alliances in the community, our efforts work to shine the public eye on unscrupulous employment practices taking place in our community.

Training Member Organizers

Effective organizing campaigns depend on one-on-one communication. Training union members both within a local union as well as from sister locals to go out and educate workers during an organizing drive is effective and compelling. By pooling the volunteer resources of local unions and providing training, a local's capacity to reach out on a large scale to workers in an organizing drive is enhanced. The Labor Council provides training and volunteer coordination in support of organizing campaigns.

Networking Locals & Building a Culture for Change

Rebuilding the labor movement means shifting the resources and priorities of local unions. Increasing the proportion of a local union's budget to organzing, hiring talented staff and developing a strategic industry plan are the largest challenges facing local unions that want to be on the front lines of change. In an attempt to provide support and direction to locals, the Labor Council networks organzing locals with locals going through transformation, links locals to resources for organzing and provides technical assistance and support by way of member education.

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