Building Worker Power in Architecture Firms
What if you had a say in how work shapes your daily life?
“You don’t get power through being professionals, you get power through unions.”
Discussion guide
Theme: surfacing issues and naming what collective action could change.
- What’s one problem at work or school you thought you just had to deal with?
- Unpaid overtime, an abusive supervisor, discrimination, unpredictable layoffs: which sound familiar?
- Who at work would you trust with this conversation, and what matters most to them?
- What makes organizing feel risky where you work? What would make it feel safer?
- What if you had a say in how work shapes your daily life?
Facilitator tip: stay with the issues and the relationships. The legal steps of forming a union can come later.
“For the first time, we got a picture of what a successful union campaign looks like in architecture… minimum salary, a 36-hour week, just cause termination.”
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