Architectural Workers United: Organizing Unions within Architecture


A roundtable discussion around first-hand experiences with organizing unions within the architecture realm with architectural workers who have helped to lead several campaigns within the private sector.

​Who are we? We are architects, designers, model makers, landscape architects, visualization artists, project managers, planners, and more working on the built environment, from multiple employers in the private sector. We are made up of volunteer architectural workers from multiple organizing committees previously and actively organizing in our respective workplaces. 

​AWU is a collaborative campaign. Our goal is to build on the tremendous inherent value our profession offers the industry, a value that is not recognized nor rewarded. We believe we can do this by harnessing the leverage that organizing unions provides workers. We are inspired by and follow in the footsteps of the over six million union members that are professional workers in the United States, such as engineers, lawyers, graphic designers, writers, etc., who have organized before us for higher standards in their professions.

​Join us for a roundtable discussion where we outline our experiences leading former and current architectural union campaigns. We will walk through our successes, our hardships, and all things union.

More

  • TAL Workers’ Circle

    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

  • Antifascist Architecture: In Conversation

    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…

  • READING GROUP: THE LABOR OF ARCHITECTURE

    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…