Unite and Win | Author Talk with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee – New Labor Book Series #18

Join by three guests who organize with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), about their recently released guide to worker organizing: Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer’s Handbook—Daphna Thier, organizer and educator at EWOC, Terry Davis, a retired labor organizer formerly at the United Electrical Radio Machine Workers of America (UE), and Atulya Dora-Laskey, a member of the Chipotle Union of Teamsters’ Organizing and Bargaining committee. 

We will talk about EWOC’s particular approach to supporting worker organizing and delve into the experiences and lessons that our guests have learned about each of the core elements of organizing at work — developing an organizing committee, having organizing conversations, taking collective action, and inoculating yourselves against the boss’s inevitable response.

Event attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Unite and Win, thanks to support from Roy Bahat and Bloomberg Beta. Instructions for getting your copy will be shared during the event.

About the guests

Daphna Thier is an organizer and educator at the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), she’s trained a few hundred workers in the last couple of years on the basics of workplace organizing, is a contributing writer and the editor of Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer’s Handbook.

Terry Davis has done labor organizing since the 1970’s. She is retired from the United Electrical Radio Machine Workers of America (UE) as an International Rep, and now volunteers with EWOC to encourage a new generation of workers in organizing for justice in the workplace. She’s a contributing writer to Unite and Win.

Atulya Dora-Laskey is a member of the Chipotle Union of Teamsters’ Organizing and Bargaining committee. She helped to organize the first ever unionized Chipotle store and is currently fighting alongside her coworkers for their first contract. She is also a volunteer trainer for EWOC, training workers across the country.

Recommended readings:

• EWOC press 
• Strikes Are Up. Union Density Is Still Down. (Jacobin)
• “What Can I Do to Help the Labor Movement?” (How Things Work)

This event is recorded but not publicly posted.