Our labor trainings take four broad directions depending on the needs of your union or labor organization:

Issue Advocacy School

These schools focus on strategic campaign planning, grassroots organizing, and coalition building around specific issue agendas. Training sessions include grassroots advocacy and lobbying, labor-community coalition building, power mapping, and strategic planning.

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Electoral Training School

Our electoral trainings offer multiple tracks. A candidate-training that covers the core skills required to run and win elected office as a labor candidate, a grassroots campaign leader program that can be designed for individuals who need the basic skills of grassroots electoral campaigning, and an advanced campaign management training for those who already have extensive organizing experience.

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Grassroots Organizing School

These schools focus on building local union capacity, leadership, and membership involvement.  Training sessions include: one-on-one organizing, communicating an effective message, volunteer recruitment, leadership development, building local action teams, and moving local issues to action.

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Train-the-Trainer School

Our Train-the-Trainer school builds capacity around basic electoral and grassroots organizing skills by training staff and key union activists how to effectively train others.  Like all of our training programs, Train-the-Trainer schools are customized to meet specific needs of partners.