Building Labor-Community Partnerships

University of Wisconsin-Madison School for Workers
Location: 
Madison, Wisconsin
Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 to Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Building long-lasting and strategic labor and community partnerships is essential to unions and communities. This class offers the knowledge, models, and tactics to build union-worker-community partnerships and explores ways to create alternative memberships. Themes include finding common ground, strategic long-term planning and organizing, using social media and technology, issue organizing, and grassroots approaches.