Tutorial videos:
-Intro to structure tests:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jlvSrIWLZhBC34SQCpAEumDUOuuT6wlB/view
-Intro to workplace mapping:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W-Yfa_FeX5F4-FdRvMQzAmWxPVNQ6nSE/view
-Intro to Agitate and Educate
-IWW Training Session
https://vimeo.com/408171248/6caad8276f
Important templates for organizing your local:
-Structure test tracker and social mapping template:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ew2QJ0-Qf87u8kvuXlWSLjDYTzceIwM3/view?usp=sharing
-leader characteristics
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l5Qz6T3W6H4VIMOzcCqitdp8lSbHd0a6/view?usp=sharing
-categories of workers to map in your workplace
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CcvirET7n38ZiEyXS7ZoWyR6Fzkb35FR/view?usp=sharing
There’s no “right” or “wrong” time to organize, because we must ALWAYS be organizing our locals. This work cannot stop for pandemics, political elections, or any other reason. VEU is committed to helping strengthen your union local through good old fashioned organizing, and we are creating this page to help share useful resources related to that goal. Be sure to check our Facebook closed group frequently so that you can participate in our next organizer training webinar. Our first one was a great success and we will surely launch more in the future.
Podcasts:
How the Los Angeles Teachers organized to win:
Organizing to win (aka- organizing for the strike)
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/strike-with-jane-mcalevey/
Recommended Literature:
-How to overcome fear in organizing part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UjXJ9fpj6eHENs_wB-IbjqXeIX9SLWzF/view?usp=sharing
How to overcome fear in organizing part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPfQHDE29yeWgf0N4SH9ha2LnpAFtK0h/view?usp=sharing
-Alinsky for teacher organizers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/106dgFMOxAB_Ln_gT4lKYmIbIg9cX1vBl/view?usp=sharing
Labor Notes
-https://labornotes.org/secrets/handouts
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/497-the-future-of-our-schools
https://www.versobooks.com/books/1569-strike-for-america
https://share.riseup.net/#7iJhG5QZIWWZx8EgInlQyA
Books
available by hardcopy and in Audible Form:
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Jane McALevy, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
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Diane Ravitch, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools