The coming years will present exciting challenges for labor and community groups. Unions and community-based organizations will need skilled staff in order to tackle the mounting needs placed before them and their constituents.
The UC Berkeley Labor Center will offer a Lead Organizer Training on January 20-22, 2016, featuring these topics:
Staff/Leadership Development • Wellness/Healthy LifeStyle Exercises • Training/Teaching/Learning Skills • Strategic Campaign Planning • Community-Labor Coalition Building • Lead Organizing Techniques/Tools
This workshop is offered for those union and community activists who hold lead organizing positions within their organizations, or will be assigned the task in the near future. Groups entering contract bargaining, conducting campaigns, or undertaking issue-oriented activities during 2016 should consider sending their lead organizers to this training.
The three-day training will be facilitated by UCB Adjunct Labor Specialist Maria L. Abadesco. It will also feature Sanjay Garla, Organizing Director of SEIU United Service Workers West, and Kuusela Hilo, Organizer with United Nurses Associa- tion of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.
SEIU United Service
Workers West office
3411 East 12th Street, Suite 200 Oakland, CA 94601
Application Deadline: November 16, 2015
Maximum 22 participants
Registration Fee: Unions: $400 CBOs: $275
Cost includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and printed and online materials. Registrations that are cancelled after Friday, January 15, 2016, 5:00 pm will be charged 10% of tuition.
For more information please contact:
Maria Abadesco
Adjunct Labor Specialist 707-494-2461 MariaLaborCenter@yahoo.com
or
Alicia Flores
Program Coordinator 510-643-0910 alicia.flores@berkeley.edu
To download an application go to http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu
The 2016 Lead Organizer Training welcomes participation from people of all races, ethnicities, national origins, and gender identities.
