Strategy Series - The Rise of Worker to Worker Organising

About The Course

Strategy is not just a word. Strategy is about how we all within the trade union and wider labour movement build the power and capacity to improve workers’ lives. The employers have strategy, the managers have strategy, and it is vital that as a united labour movement we build our own.

This series will include discussions from leading thinkers on: reviving the trade union movement, how we build union strategy, the role of women and feminist approaches to our unions, strategies for developing activists and the capacity to win campaigns big and small.

The Rise of Worker to Worker Organising will be delivered by Eric Blanc, a long-time labour activist. Blanc is an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which he helped co-found in March 2020. He directs The Worker to Worker Collaborative, a centre to help unions and rank-and-file groups scale up their efforts by expanding their members’ involvement and leadership. His most recent book is We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (UC Press 2025).