Member Engagement Resource Updates

New Employee Orientation :: Organizing Conversations :: Managing Data :: Local Union Organizing Plans :: Statewide Planning :: Contract Language :: Worksite Leadership and Building Rep Structures :: Explaining Attacks on Fair-Share

New Employee Orientation

• Reach new employees as early as possible - A sample PowerPoint for new employee orientation

  

• Some Thoughts on Improving New Employee Orientation (PowerPoint excerpt) 

  

• The "First Friend, Best Friend" Approach to Connecting with New Employees

Organizing Conversations

• Worksite Conversations and Actions: A trove of tools from California

  • Vitals Signs for A Strong Local Union

  • Workload Equity Petition

  • Workload Equity Committment Card

  • Workload Equity Worksite Rap

  • Building Our Power Worksite Leaflet

  • Worksite Conversation Guide

  • Outreach to Higher Ed Classified Employees: El Camino Worksite Rap

  • Outreach to Higher Ed Classified Employees: El Camino Phone Tree 

  • Outreach to K-12 Classified Employees: Lawndale Federation of Classified Employees Negotiations Update

  • Outreach to K-12 Classified Employees: LFCE Noon Duty Survey

• One-on-one conversations bring new members into our union: An AFT training module for building reps and volunteer organizers

• Local 2121 one-one-one rap sheet 

  

• OCCTA site visit rap 

  

Managing Data

• Collecting and Using Data for Organizing (MCIO) 

  

• Simplifying the Sign-Up Process – St. Paul finds a smart way around a data management hassle

• A resource page to help you with data tracking, AFT's Mobile Toolkit for Worksite Leaders, and member engagement file uploads

Local Union Organizing Plans

• Issues Organizing at the Glendale Community College Faculty Guild - Worksite flyer :: Meeting notice :: Commitment Card :: Prop 30 flyer :: Prop 30 Commitment Card

• In our nations capital, the WTU has woven fair-share payer outreach into everything the union does...

  

• Preparing for a contract fight and recruiting agency-fee payers at Local 2121, Community College of San Francisco...​

  

• Orange County Organizing Blitz 

  

• Rutgers AAUP-AFT Operation Fighting Friedrichs 

  

Statewide Planning

• In Oregon, cooperation between locals and statewide affiliates is kick-starting outreach to fair-share payers...

• Special Supplement: From New York State United Teachers, an impressively detailed look at launching a statewide fair-share-to-membership campaign

Contract Language

• Priorities in Bargaining and Employer Relations

Worksite Leadership and Building Rep Structures

The following documents were developed by Rick Kuplinski, AFT Deputy Director, as part of his work with AFT locals and state federations. 

The first of these two documents covers what building reps do (the training took place in Florida, so FEA is the affiliate referenced in both documents). It is a 'job-description' for worksite leadership teams. The second document describes a workshop session in which affiliate leaders develop a plan for 'supporting worksite leadership as a "system."'

This document provides a comprehensive approach to organizing conversations and one-on-one union communication.

Explaining Attacks on Fair-Share

Why Billionaires and Corporate CEOs are Trying to End Fair-Share

Attacks on Fair-Share: What It Means for You

What is Right-to-Work?

Who is Behind the Attacks on Fair Share?