General Organizing and Organizing Conversations

Write a concrete contract bargaining plan!

• NLRB on good faith bargaining
• Tips from Labor Notes on the first and final days and how to write clearer contract language and how to use legally protected strikes, including Unfair Labor Practice strikes (mostly private sector oriented)
• International Association of Fire Fighters’ Model Contract Language Manual
• Aim to bargain for the Common Good/classwide platform

Write a concrete contract enforcement plan!

• • Tips from lawyer Robert M. Schwartz for Labor Notes and the Steelworkers about how information requests about members of a bargaining unit and  filing an information request with every grievance, which the employer are required to answer 
  • “UE Building a Healthy Union Checklist” with samples of union steward training for contract enforcement and sample steward language