It is the opposite of top-down education where students are expected to passively accept and reproduce what the teacher has decided they should know. It is also different from education that uses participatory techniques to further a preset agenda. We will work with you to develop a plan that provides the training you need. If you are new officers and want ideas on how to restructure the grievance procedure, we will connect you with other reform officers who have come up with new approaches. If you are public sector workers, we will bring in activists who have had success organizing for democracy in public sector unions.
Many activists have trouble getting their coworkers involved.
See the workshops page for more examples. We have taught new officers, trained stewards, and helped workers build reform groups on the local and national level. Many participants in our classes become teachers to other workers. Our mission is education for union democracy. Most of the people we work with are already union members, though we have done work with people who are involved in new organizing.