What is Organizing and Why Do It?

What is Organizing, and why do it? How to Organize

What is Organizing?

  • Organizing is the process and action of engaging co-workers to build a workplace which upholds high standards of care, fairness and transparency. 
  • Organizing means talking to co-workers, learning, and sharing common concerns as well as identifying how to move forward together, unified, to address those concerns. 
  • Organizing is…changing the status quo.
  • Organizing is recognizing the literal strength in numbers. Organizing is building a workplace community in which colleagues support each other, while also holding organizations accountable to the public they serve.
  • Union Organizing connects colleagues not only at the same workplace, it also connects workers throughout the state and country. 

Why Organize?

Organizing empowers workers to transform their workplace from one in which they have no meaningful input, to one in which their views have a real influence on building a healthy workplace as well as delivering the highest quality of care for our community. 

  • Policies changed and imposed without consultation?
  • Wages falling behind and hard to predict?
  • Favoritism?
  • Unsafe Staffing?
  • Unfair Treatment?
  • No meaningful input in the workplace?
  • Employer more concerned with bottom line than patients?

Organizing is a vehicle for giving workers a  workplace voice and the power to make positive change.