International Executive Board
- Make internal organizing a priority for all District/ Sector employees and review results monthly.
- Hold a staff meeting to review CWA STRONG , the crisis we face and the need to prioritize and support internal organizing.
Present and discuss CWA STRONG at all meetings and conferences. Schedule workshops or panels and recognize locals and staff working the program and achieving results.- Visit work locations with a local officer to hear about issues and talk union with members and non-members.
- Continue to encourage movement building and work with allies.
Staff
- Collect internal organizing survey form each local assigned.
- Attend an internal organizing training in your district/sector.
- Attend local Executive Board meetings to review current crisis and CWA STRONG Plan and get commitment from locals to work the plan.
- Help locals get non-member data from employers and electronic reporting.
- Verify that locals have copies of membership cards.
- Visit work locations with local officers to hear about issues and talk about the union with members and non-members.
- Ask to meet with local organizing committee. Review current crisis and CWA STRONG Plan. Get committee to commit to internal organizing.
- Review your locals' online communications capacity and recommend that they use Action Network for e-mail and LaborWeb for their websites if they do not already have a system in place.
- Bargain to achieve model language for access to new hires and existing employees, on the job union orientation and other proposals that support internal organizing.
- Encourage locals to make sure that all bargaining is strategic and coordinated.
- Encourage locals to share information and strategies throughout our union and to fight giveback demands.
- Encourage locals to build partnerships with allies.
Local Presidents/Officers
- Return internal organizing survey to your staff.
- Invite Staff to review current crisis and CWA STRONG plan with your local Executive Board, organizing committee and at membership meetings.
- Communicate with members about crisis and CWA STRONG by posting on website, sending out emails and including in local newsletters.
- Reach out to District Internal Organizing Coordinator and design a systematic plan to increase members by 10 percentage points if local is at or below 80 % organized.
- Make internal organizing a priority and review nonmember numbers at every local Executive Board meeting.
- Divide up worksites among local board members and visit each to talk with members and sign up nonmembers.
- Work to collect at least 50% of member’s emails and communicate regularly with members via e-mail. A request for email addresses should be on all materials distributed in the workplace, on bulletin boards and local websites.
- Use the CWA STRONG materials at stewards and membership meetings to help members better understand the crisis and challenges we face how and it affects our contracts and rights.
- Set up a website and Facebook page for your local and keep it up-to-date with information on events, activities and how the local supports members.
- Have a diverse, trained local organizing committee.
- Have a systematic program for asking for PAF contributions.
- Have a functioning Human Rights Committee
- Identify allies that the local can work with on issues and develop a deeper longer term partnership.
