Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) 
Unite and Win 
The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook

Overworked? Underpaid? Frustrated with your boss? 

This guide , based on the collective experience of organizers and workers in non-unionized workplaces, is a critical tool to help you and your coworkers organize for justice at work. 

Unite and Win covers the core elements of organizing at work — developing an organizing committee, having organizing conversations, taking collective action, and inoculating yourselves against the boss’s inevitable response. 

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) provides support and training to non-union workers organizing for better working conditions, with a goal of building a stronger, worker-led labor movement. EWOC was founded in March 2020 as a joint project of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Since its founding, EWOC has trained and supported thousands of workers who want better working conditions through their Foundational Training Program. This book is a companion to that program, along with other online and video-based resources.

About the author

Daphna Thier is the labor educator on staff at EWOC, where she organizes trainings for hundreds of workers new to organizing each year. She, with the help of many experienced labor organizers, created the organizer’s handbook based on the EWOC training program.