Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Cost: $30
Instructor: Bill Barry
While we celebrate the surge in new organizing, the challenge is to make sure the workers become covered by a union contract. The average time to get a first contract is 465 days, so the union needs to keep members’ morale up while you’re negotiating.
In this session participants will learn how to create leverage to make the boss negotiate, and how to immediately set up a union structure in the workplace that mobilizes all of the workers.
We will look at strategies for finding the employer’s vulnerable points as well as how to create a movement—in the workplace, in your geographic area, and in the general economy—to get a contract quickly.
Our emphasis will be on creating power rather than relying on the NLRB or on political favors.
What past attendees have said about Bill Barry’s Labor Bookstore Zoom trainings:
* Hearing everyone's challenges and how they were able to overcome them was very helpful.
* It was great to meet other union members and hear their stories.
* The different conversations and hearing how other unions and union stewards dealt with challenges was the best part.
* It was great to hear other people's stories
* Learning new information and networking was the most valuable.