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We are a grassroots organization of architectural workers that advocates for just labor practices and an equitable (built) environment.
We organise in working groups centred around particular themes.
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Green New Deal
We support a federal Green New Deal and are committed to the resolution’s call for a just transition. We focus on organizing for ecological justice as it relates to architectural labor, the built environment, and sustainable futures for all.
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A Documentary Film
“Architecture Workers: Organizing for Change” is a Lobby member interview-based documentary film featuring seven calls to action. Coming 2026.
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Unionization
The TAL Unionization Working Group (UWG) is an advocacy, support, and study group whose mission is to promote labor organizing for workers in architecture and related fields. While not ourselves a union, our members have played leading roles in the movement to organize architecture and designer workers since TAL’s inception. As our movement grows, we…
Events
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READING GROUP: THE LABOR OF ARCHITECTURE
Join us as we read and discuss The Labor of Architecture by C.G. Beck through the months of May and June. Providing insight through his direct experiences organizing and negotiating from within the world of architecture, Beck explains how a design-based union movement can create a new reality for the labor of architects and designers, arguing…
Virtual (Discord)
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NO STAMPS FOR CAMPS!
NO STAMPS NO CAMPS THIS IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO USE ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING, AND PLANNING METHODS TO DISRUPT, STALL, HALT AND REFUSE WAREHOUSE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. This will be a webinar that introduces the database of spatial information on ICE facilities and shifts to a working Zoom. You are welcome to join late, but it is…
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No Shortcuts Reading Discussion
Event Description In NO SHORTCUTS: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Dr. Jane F. McAlevey investigates the reasons behind the recent failures of unions and lays out a way forward for the progressive movement. McAlevey, an experienced community, electoral, and labor organizer, presents a dozen case studies of unions and social movements seeking…
Saturday 2/21/26 03:00pm—04:00pm EDT
Online • Online (Discord)
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INTERNATIONAL LABOR ISSUES
Open to all! Join Chris G. Beck and Arvind Ramachandran for a conversation revolving around similarities and differences between work and organizing in Finland and the US. Bring your questions, it’s an open discussion. This event was organized by members of Architectural Workers United and Architecture Lobby groups including Green New Deal working group &…
Wednesday 12/10/25 07:00pm—09:00pm EDT
Citygroup, 104b Forsyth St, NY, NY
