Resources
EWOC offers these resources to help you organize your workplace and help other workers, too. Every worker deserves a union, and these printable can help.
Union organizing guide
EWOC’s organizing guide covers everything you need to know about labor organizing at work from start to finish. It begins by defining organizing and covers how to connect with your co-workers, build a campaign, beat back pressures from the boss, win a union, bargain collectively, and run your union.
- Workplace organizing basics
- How to form a union organizing committee
- Organizing conversations: Talking with your co-workers about a union
- Workplace campaigns and collective action
- Inoculation: How to defeat the anti-union boss campaign
- NLRB election and certification: How to win union recognition
- Collective bargaining: How workers negotiate a winning union contract
- Union operations: How to run and maintain a democratic union
- Workplace organizing scenarios and guides
- Union organizing tools and templates
Labor law and rights
These resources cover the federal laws and regulations you need to know when you and your co-workers organize for a union. Strong worker power is always your best defense, but a good strategy always includes knowing your rights.
Be sure to also check out our guide to state labor laws. Depending on which state you reside, your local laws may give your campaign an advantage or an extra hurdle to clear.
Training resources
Our Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing training series covers all the core concepts of building a campaign with your co-workers on the job. With each course, we recommend select readings and other training resources to further enhance your knowledge of what to expect and how to win.
Labor news
Hear first-hand accounts of workers’ struggles to organize at work and get analyses of pressing issues currently affecting the labor movement.
Recent articles:
- Remembering Arielle ClynesJune 8, 2026
- Daniel Gross and Unions of Our OwnJune 4, 2026
- How to organize against authoritarianismApril 20, 2026
- Hate injustice? Join the labor movement.March 23, 2026
- There’s no app for organizingFebruary 26, 2026
Labor history
Today’s struggles are built on yesterday’s conflicts. Learn the history of the labor movement in the U.S. to help develop your campaign’s strategy.
Recent articles:
- The history of Scabby the ratJuly 16, 2026
- The history of labor organizing in pro wrestlingApril 16, 2026
- The decline of union membership and lessons from the pastDecember 15, 2025
- Labor law is won through struggleAugust 28, 2024
- Reflections on organizing with 9to5May 30, 2023
Printable Materials and Resources
Download EWOC’s organizing and promotional materials, including flyers, stickers, and cards.
