PHEW-CWA and Organizing Department Host Tennessee Organizing Blitz

Earlier this month, 15 public sector organizers from CWA Districts 3 and 7, along with over a dozen member-leaders, visited worksites and made home visits to share union information, sign up new members, and inject energy into organizing campaigns already underway.

In Tennessee, members from CWA Local 3866 signed up 15 new members and engaged in nearly 60 in-depth conversations with workers at 6 different Shelby County Health Department worksites. Members also visited United Campus Workers-Memphis to administer a living wage survey, where they signed up a new University of Memphis member.

The blitz also included visits to CWA members at six branches of the Memphis Public Library and home visits to county workers to rally support for the library worker referendum and the potential benefits of forming unions in their workplaces.

Finally, blitz participants talked to dozens of workers at several Mississippi state employee offices in support of CWA's Mississippi Alliance of State Employees (MASE-CWA Local 3570).

 
Organizers, staff, and volunteers helped reach out to potential and existing members during the CWA District 3/District 7 Organizing Blitz earlier this month. CWA Assistant Organizing Director Gail Tyree (front, left) and CWA District 7 Administrative Director Katie Romich (center, black glasses) joined other activists for the organizing blitz.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.