Organizer in Training -Strategic Campaigns

SEIU Local 1000 is a progressive public sector labor union representing over 96,000 California state employees in ten different bargaining units. We negotiate and enforce a complex contract that ensures good working conditions, fair wages and secure health care and retirement benefits.

We are seeking an Organizer in Training for our Strategic Campaigns Department in Norwalk, CA. This is an entry level position to the Organizer classification.

The OIT will complete a formal and informal training program, including extensive on-the-job training, designed to develop the skills necessary to advance into the journey level Union Representative/Organizer classification. If you’re passionate about organizing, a tireless advocate for the rank-and-file and excel at both strategy and tactics of influencing others towards collective action, please apply.

DUTIES: The required duties, which may or may not be continuously performed, include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Identify, recruit, train and develop worksite leaders and stewards.

· Lead, motivate and mobilize worksite leaders, stewards and members in internal and external organizing, politics, community alliance building and other union activities.

· Develop and maintain effective communication networks in worksites, including writing and distributing leaflets, notices, newsletters, emails and other materials among worksite leaders, stewards and members.

· Visit members and potential members at their homes.

· Create and maintain lists and charts, which may include input on, and operation of, computerized database systems.

· Work with worksite stewards and leaders to represent members through the grievance and arbitration system, as well as mobilizing members to take action around issues in the worksite.

· Effectively advance the Union’s positions in community groups, political groups, and labor councils and with local, state and federal officials and legislative bodies.

· Conduct research and analyze data.

· Prepare and present clear, concise and complete verbal and written reports.

· Perform other related duties as required.

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