The Organizing Institute (OI) seeks to help build the union movement primarily through identifying, training and developing organizers from our membership, staff, community and college campuses across the country.
"I'm an organizer because I believe that safe employment to earn a living wage is a human right. People who actually work for a living deserve so much more than we have all been led to believe."
Beth Tombers
2013 OI Apprentice Organizer
Gulf Coast Shipyards Campaign
The Organizing Institute is for activists:
We are committed to educating organizers who are enthusiastic and energetic and arming them with skills to help workers form unions.
The Organizing Institute is for unions:
Whether your union wants to develop a member organizer program, train organizing staff or recruit new organizers, the OI can assist. The OI staff includes organizer trainers with 15-plus years of union and community organizing experience. The OI offers training in the fundamentals of organizing as well as more advanced organizer training in both the classroom and the field.
Call us: 1-800-848-3021
Get FAQs about the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute.
The OI offers several training options:
The OI offers trainings for:
2013 Schedule of Trainings:
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[CLOSED]
Austin, Texas
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Sept. 27–29
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| Columbus, Ohio
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Oct. 11–13
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Nov. 1-3
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Washington, D.C.
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Dec. 6–8
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Spanish-Speaking Training
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Young Workers Training
Note: Only union members sponsored by their unions are eligible to apply to these trainings.
Sponsorship forms
must
be received two (2) weeks prior to training. Any forms received after the cut-off date will be put on a “Wait” list and subject to availability.
Checks/money orders should be made payable to "AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer." Personal checks will
not
be accepted.
