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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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TAL Workers’ Circle
With the recent Member Outreach Survey, you shared your experience as workers in the building sector and with TAL’s organizing efforts. Continue the conversation with other members at our upcoming Workers’ Circle – Thursday, July 30th at 8PM EST. Discuss strategies for workplace organizing and support each other in taking action. Discord event link: https://discord.gg/F6QgAueuk?event=1528531289907531836
Thursday 7/30/26 08:00pm—09:00pm EDT
Online • https://discord.gg/F6QgAueuk?event=1528531289907531836
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Antifascist Architecture: In Conversation
Architects, historians, and theorists have been obsessed with fascist architecture since postmodernism. But who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? This book is the first attempt at creating a working definition. Antifascist Architecture collects a kaleidoscope of diverse architects who heroically aligned themselves with antifascist struggles around the world. It is…
Monday 7/13/26 06:00pm—07:00pm EDT
Cascieri Hall, Boston Architectural College
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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…
