Sign Up for Organizing for Power Online Organizing Course for Feb. 2025
Are you interested in building organizing strength in your workplace? Do you want to build strength to win a union, to win a contract or achieve other goals? Support new workers to join your existing union? If the answer is yes, join the Maine AFL-CIO's cohort for this year's Organizing for Power class!
Sign up here to participate in the 2025 Organizing for Power class with the Maine AFL-CIO Team!
Organizing for Power: The Core Fundamentals (O4P) is a multi-week online training program that provides union members or non-union workers with the information and practice they need to build the organizing skills necessary to win changes at work, contract fights, and unionization efforts. The 2025 Organizing for Power class will begin in February, 2025.
This Organizing for Power training will focus on the five core organizing fundamentals:
- Leader identification, or: understanding who can move people (it’s often not who you first think);
- Semantics, or: the words we use matter – they have to center each worker’s active participation as key to winning;
- Structured organizing conversations, or: what it takes to recruit the hardest-to-recruit leaders;
- Charting, or: a simple method to understand human social relationships, and to prioritize and systematize outreach;
- Structure tests, or: mini campaigns to build solidarity and site structure, and to know when you are ready to win.
These essential skills serve as the building blocks of all winning campaigns. The fundamentals of success do not change; the real key is our ability to master them.
Classes will run from February 13th through March 20th. Classes will be on Thursdaysand each class will run for either 2 or 2 1/2 hours, and the same material will be covered in both tracks. You will be offered a choice to participate at noon (Track A) or at 8pm (Track B) (or both - or go back and forth!). Orientation for the Maine Team will be Thursday, February 6 (1 hour - noon or 8pm).
We also offer an optional but highly recommended Maine debrief/prep session - one hour between each class and one final debrief at the end. The day/time of the debrief will be determined by what works for the most members of the Maine group - instructions to indicate your available times will be included in the class application form when registration opens.