Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont

Project-Based Organizers

For covering Upstate New York

 

Description: Workers United Upstate New York & Vermont is looking for Project Organizers to work on an exciting intern and external campaign in Upstate New York. This position requires a flexible work schedule which may include evening and weekend assignments. Travel may also be required. 

Project Organizers will start in late September/early October and the end likely January 1. Housing in Upstate New York will be subsidized, and there is potential for the project to be expanded. 

Duties of the position include: 

• Door knocking 
• Conducting one-on-ones 
• Training worker leaders in both union shops and non-union shops
• Hosting organizing committee meetings 
• Meeting with religious and community organizations 
• Working with diverse populations 
• Organizing meetings 
• Assisting attorneys with any NLRB charges

Preference will be given to candidates who speak the following languages: Burmese, Karin, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, Ukrainian and Hindi, and Arabic. 

Qualifications: 

• Labor organizing experience preferred but not required 
• Experience working with immigrant populations preferred 
• Additional language skills in Burmese, Karin, Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, Hindi, and/or Arabic 

To Apply: Email cmoore@rrjb.org to apply. Please include your language skills, relevant experience, and a few sentences about why you want to work in the labor movement, and what role you think the labor movement has in society. 

About Workers United Upstate New York
Home to Starbucks Workers United, Workers United Upstate New York was founded by radical immigrant garment workers who took risks and made sacrifices to better the working conditions of themselves and their co-workers. We remain committed to industrial unionism and to the class struggle. We believe that organizing a union is not just about winning higher wages and benefits. It’s about changing power dynamics and building solidarity. When you organize, you’re creating something bigger than yourself. You’re becoming part of a dynamic, transformative and radical force for justice – the Labor Movement.

We represent workers across many industries – coffee shops and casinos, laundries and warehouses, garment factories and dining halls, manufacturing plants and hotels. We are an organizing union, committed to building power for workers and fighting exploitation and discrimination on the job. We believe that we cannot have a true democracy in our civil society without democracy in the workplace.