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    Union Organizing and Facebook

    We asked 20 different unions to tell us about their success stories generating organizing leads using Facebook and compiled the best practices into a simple step-by-step system you can use to start organizing using Facebook. The guide includes an 11 page workbook, a step-by-step implementation...

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    Interviews with Organizers: Bob Oedy

    Bob Oedy is the author of Bigger Labor and the Green Career Ladder. What should organizers be doing that they are not doing right now? Bob: There are a lot of organizers that, let’s face it, aren’t organizing. They’re doing a lot of things, dispatching,...

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    Get Better at House Calls

    I bought a cheap flip camera a few years thinking it would be a great tool for training union organizers on house calls. I envision recording situations during an organizing drive and creating a guide for how to material. After taping a few hours of...

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    Organize New Members using Facebook

    Quick question: How many union organizing leads have you missed because you’re not using Facebook? Here’s 6 proven ways to recruit members using Facebook (and 3 ways that will fail miserably) Here’s what works: Fan Pages for Campaigns – Engage non-union workers in campaign for...

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    Do Union Organizing Statistics Matter?

    Jennifer sent me an email asking about the point of the series on Scientific Targeting. Do these statistics tell us to focus on only what is easy to organize? One thing is for certain, we can’t use “win rates” and other NRLB data to decide...

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