Organize Every Campus Town Hall Feat. Eric Blanc

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
7 pm ET / 6 pm CT / 5 pm MT / 4 pm PT

Join AAUP for an organizing town hall meeting at 7–8 p.m. ET / 4–5 p.m. PT. We will hear from labor activist Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Eric is an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which he helped co-found in March 2020. He directs The Worker to Worker Collaborative, a center to help unions and rank-and-file groups scale up their efforts by expanding their members’ involvement and leadership.

We’ll also hear about how to identify an organizing issue on campus. At our institutions we face no shortage of challenges, whether it’s cuts in state funding, consolidation of departments and resources, crumbling facilities, or interference into what we teach and research. Tonight, we’ll talk through the pros and cons of different approaches to identifying an issue to use for an organizing campaign.