Local EWOC Groups

Groups should determine their own activities, but EWOC recommends a few basic things.

• Meet Regularly: Regular meetings should be places where the group can plan and coordinate other activities, but also where organizers can check in on their campaigns, giving status updates and seeking advice.
• Conduct outreach for campaigns: Find ways to reach workers who might want support organizing – be it through connecting with other groups, tabling, flyering, canvassing, or other ways to make yourself known.
• Conduct outreach to find new volunteers: Look for events and groups where there may be people with organizing experience and capacity – reach out to them and find ways to encourage people to join EWOC as organizers and volunteers!
• Hold Trainings: Put on either in-person versions of the foundational training series, or more specific trainings oriented at particular industries or stages of campaign organizing.
• Hold events to support workers who are organizing: These can be dayschools or conferences where different campaigns get together and learn from one another, or regular “workers circles” where active workers can share experiences and advice about issues they’ve encountered in organizing.
• Hold broader events: Socials, fundraisers, and other ways to bring together organizing workers and broader layers of labor activists to meet, celebrate their successes, and cook up new ideas.