Training Opportunities

Fall 2026 Regional Public Training Series 
 

• UCW 101: Organizing Basics - Our union is uniting campus workers across the South to build power and win change. Corporate attacks on worker rights, fair pay, free speech, science funding, and more are on the rise. Now more than ever, students and workers need to come together across their differences to build a labor organization that can effectively fight for their shared interests. 
  
  In this 75 minute training, we will review and discuss some of the fundamentals that guide our United Campus Workers organizing strategy, and leave with next steps for applying these fundamentals on their campus and in their workplace. Any and all United Campus Workers members are encouraged to attend.
   

  • Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by CWA national campaign lead Frederick Smith and UCW-MS field organizer Patricia McCourt.
       
  • Wednesday, September 22nd, 2026
    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by CWA national campaign lead Tiandra Robinson and UCW-GA field organizer Bryant Barnes. 
       
  • Tuesday, October 27th, 2026

    • 12ET/11CT - Register Here - This training will be led by UCW-TN field organizer Nikki Taylor and UCW-LA field organizer Jena McCullin.

       

  • Wednesday, December 2nd, 2026
    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by CWA national campaign lead Sylvia James and UCW-TN field organizer Ashton Beatty.

  
   

• UCW 102: Workshopping Tough Convos - In order to build power and win change as a union, we need to act collectively with our coworkers around widely shared and deeply felt concerns. This is often easier said than done! Decades of attacks on working people have left us confused, fearful, hopeless, and divided. Many of our coworkers have no practical experience standing with others in a united way as a class. They are confused and fearful about what a union is and they are skeptical that another way of doing things is possible. 
  
  In this training, we will workshop together how to deal with the disempowering emotions and thoughts we confront when we organize. What obstacles are getting in the way of your work on your campus? What frameworks or tools are available to better address these obstacles in the future? We will discuss all this and more in this 75 minute training. All United Campus Workers who have attended our 101 training are welcome to attend.

   

  • Wednesday, November 11th, 2026

    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by UCW-TN field organizer Olive Fairweather and UCW-GA field organizer Andrew Zonneveld.
       

       

• UCW 103: Campaign Fundamentals - In this 75-minute training, we will review and discuss some campaign fundamentals all member leaders should know:

  • How to pick a good organizing issue

  • How to build an escalation plan

  • How to develop a plan to win

  • How to build a base within the context of a campaign

  Everyone will leave the meeting with frameworks to strengthen campus-based campaigns. Please note this training will be tailored to organizing committee members. 

  • Wednesday, September 9th, 2026

    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by UCWSE Organizing Coordinator Allison Becha and UCW-KY field organizer Connor Courtney. 

• UCW 104: Building Powerful Organizing Committees - This 75 minute training is about giving you the tools to build powerful organizing committee spaces. We’ll go over best practices and frameworks and examine some “gone wrong” case studies to think through practical problems and how to solve them. It is recommended that you’ve gone through conversation training. Please note that this is specifically about organizing committees and will not focus on campaign teams.

   

  • Tuesday, October 6th, 2026
    • 6ET/5CT - Register Here - This training will be led by UCWSE Organizing Coordinator Curtis Pomilia and UCW-KY field organizer Ezra Lanoue.

• Additional Training Opportunities: Our staff organizer team has developed and adapted trainings on additional topics not listed above. These include: building and running effective base-building operations, charting your workplace, facilitating meetings, talking to the media, using Action Builder (beginner and advanced levels), crafting worker stories, understanding and overcoming boss tactics, building a leaderful organizing space, campaign fundamentals, and using empowering semantics in union communications. If members of your chapter are interested in setting up a training in one of these areas, you should discuss this with your staff organizer or email Curtis Pomilia, one of our regional organizing coordinators, at [email protected].