Beating Apathy Organizing Workshop — Monday Sept. 9, 6m at USM in Portland

Organizer Daniel O'Donnell will be running an organizing workshop titled “Beating Apathy” on Monday, September 9 in Payson Smith Hall Room 305 from 6pm to 8pm at the University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St, Portland. There is street parking on Falmouth St and from 6pm on it is free on both sides. Please RSVP: Linda.A.Deane@maine.edu or 207-491-8168

Here's the workshop description :

Are you beating your head against the wall trying to get your coworkers involved? Has the employer used fear, confusion, division, or hopelessness to stop your efforts to win your rights, form your union, and win a great collective bargaining agreement? This workshop is for you. Hear success stories about how others have turned their workplaces around and turned apathy into action. Learn practical organizing tools for engaging your co-workers, taking action, and getting results.

Daniel O'Donnell grew up in a paper mill town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and joined the labor movement in 1995 during the Detroit Newspaper Strike, graduating from the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute in 1998 and working with the Teamsters, Service Employees, Carpenters, Midwest Council of Industrial Employees, Michigan Nurses Association, Washington Labor Education & Research Center, and the Oregon Education Association. He is a long-time devotee and supporter of Labor Notes, a media and organizing project for workers to become more active and take leadership roles in their unions using aggressive strategies to build power, fight concessions and win good contracts.

Please RSVP: Linda.A.Deane@maine.edu or 207-491-8168