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Organizing Power is a project providing arts and nonprofit workers with accessible tools for union organizing. We've published two Risograph-printed booklets and brought together labor organizers and workers for panel discussions.
VOLUME 1 BOOKLET PDF: Unionizing Your Workplace
VOLUME 2 BOOKLET PDF: Negotiating Union Contracts
VOLUME 2 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
VOLUME 3 SUBMISSION FORM
Organizing Power Volume 2
Organizing Power Volume 2 is a 40-page Risograph-printed booklet designed to provide arts/nonprofit workers with tools to negotiate union contracts. A follow-up to Volume 1, Volume 2 answers the question, “You’ve formed a union: great! What now?”
Download a free pdf version of the booklet
For union workers bargaining contracts, I’ll mail you printed copies! Email me at jessalynaaland [at] gmail.com
The booklet text was written and compiled by me, Ana Fox-Hodess, and Martin Oropeza, and includes contributions from the Art Workers Union at the Frye Museum, Amber Bales, Jill Grant, Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, Jamie Kavanah, Matt Kennedy, Dana Kopel, Yasmin Adele Majeed, Nat Naylor, and SFMOMA bargaining team members. Design and printing by Paul Morgan. Volume 2 was funded by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program and The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Volume 2 also includes a Google Drive folder of example contracts, links to organizer resources, and a wage proposal calculation spreadsheet.
Organizing Power Volume 1
As part of Jessalyn Aaland's 2018-2019 fellowship at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Jessalyn and Ana Fox-Hodess curated Organizing Power: Unions + Art/Nonprofit Workers at YBCA's Public Square event in San Francisco, CA on June 1, 2019.
The event featured a free 20-page Risograph printed booklet, two panel discussions, and artwork from the 2019 Oakland teachers’ strike.
Organizing Power Volume 1 is a 20-page Risograph-printed booklet designed to provide arts/nonprofit workers with tools to organize a union at their workplace.
Download a free pdf version of the booklet
For the cost of shipping, I will mail you printed copies if you're interested in organizing your workplace. Email me at jessalynaaland [at] gmail.com
The booklet text was adapted from online resources with additional writing by Jessalyn Aaland, Ana Fox-Hodess, and Nat Naylor. Illustrations were contributed by Tanna Tucker. The booklet was designed and printed by Paul Morgan.
Ana Fox-Hodess & I organized two roundtable discussions addressing how art workers can unionize, featuring Fred Glass, Matt Kennedy, Nat Naylor, and Peter Olney. Watch videos of the two talks using the links below:
Why unions?
Fred Glass (center), labor activist, CCSF educator, and author of From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement describes 10 key moments in labor history.
Peter Olney (left), former Organizing Director, ILWU explains the two essential elements of running a successful unionizing campaign: heat and hammer.
How can you unionize your workplace?
Matt Kennedy (center), CCA union organizing committee member, shares what motivated CCA staff to form a union, and how they carried out their organizing campaign.
Nat Naylor (left), OPEIU Local 29 union organizer, which represents SFMOMA and SFAI, among others, adds to Matt's experience with information for organizers from a professional union perspective.
Throughout the four-hour event, Nat also hosted a Q&A booth to answer questions about unionizing.
Along with the publications, handmade buttons with various pro-union slogans were distributed to attendees.
Artwork from the Oakland teachers’ strike was generously lent by the Oakland Education Association and Rumi Koshino.
Risograph-printed posters spelling out the word "ORGANIZE" were displayed in the windows facing YBCA's public space, Yerba Buena Gardens, and Mission Street.
Organizing Power: Unions + Art/Nonprofit Workers was commissioned by the YBCA Fellows program. From 2018-2019, I was a YBCA Fellow addressing the question “How might we reimagine political power?”
