Behavioral Healthcare Organizing

This workshop explores emerging trends in behavioral healthcare, focusing on the rise of app-based mental health services, ongoing challenges with billing and reimbursement, and the systemic impact on providers. Examine how these shifts affect clinical practice, equity, and patient access, and learn how clinicians are organizing to advocate for sustainable care and professional protections.

Mobilizing Apathetic Coworkers

“Mobilizing Apathetic Coworkers” equips stewards with the skills to engage hesitant or disengaged colleagues in meaningful organizing conversations. The course focuses on how to listen actively and identify meaningful issues, build trust, and move people through their fears and into action. Participants will leave with tools to transform apathy into empowerment and strengthen workplace solidarity.

Faith, Spirituality and the Labor Movement

Panelists from diverse faith traditions and labor backgrounds will share stories, struggles, and insights on how belief systems have inspired collective action and resilience. Participants will engage in a guided workshop to reflect, build community, and explore practical ways to connect faith and spirituality to the fight for workers’ rights.

Grievance Handling / Manejo de Quejas

Learn what is involved in writing and filing grievances, how to construct winning arguments, and how to lead effective grievance meetings with management.

Aprende lo que se necesita para redactar y presentar quejas, cómo escribir argumentos convincentes y cómo dirigir reuniones de quejas efectivas con la gerencia.

Digging for Dirt: Researching the Boss

This workshop will cover the role of research in corporate accountability campaigns. We will share tools to research employers, discuss the kind of information you can find, and most importantly, how we can use information to move campaigns forward and win. Bring a laptop or mobile device if you can!

Dealing with Discipline / Manejo de la Disciplina

You’ve heard of Weingarten Rights and the Seven Tests of Just Cause, but do you know how to apply them in your workplace? Learn about these legal rights of union members, and how to apply them in cases of discipline.

Has escuchado de los Derechos Weingarten y las Siete Pruebas de Causa Junta, pero ¿sabes cómo aplicarlos en tu lugar de trabajo? Aprende sobre estos derechos legales para miembros de sindicatos, y cómo aplicarlos en casos de disciplina.

Interpreting Your Contract

How do you ensure a contract says what it means? In this course, you will explore how contract disputes arise, learn how to define and explain common contract terms, and practice analyzing and interpreting contract language.

Sanctuary for All: Know Your Rights for Healthcare Workers / Santuario para Todos Conoce tus Derechos Como Trabajador de la Salud

As healthcare workers in California, we have a duty  to provide safe, non-discriminatory care to all patients, regardless of their immigration status. Learn the basics for helping immigrants understand their legal rights when interacting with immigration authorities.

Como trabajadores de la salud en California, tenemos el deber de proveer una atención segura y no discriminatoria a todos los pacientes, sin importar su estatus migratorio. Aprende las bases de cómo ayudar a los inmigrantes a que aprendan sus derechos derechos al interactuar con autoridades migratorias.

Bargaining 101

Get introduced to key aspects of bargaining a union contract, including how to prepare for a contract campaign, bargaining team roles/responsibilities, phases of a contract campaign, common bargaining terms, and an intro to drafting proposals.

The New Normal: The Healthcare Industry Today and its Impact on Caregivers

This workshop examines how current healthcare conditions—such as public health layoffs, funding cuts, and a weakened CDC—are affecting frontline workers and patients. Participants will explore strategies for organizing under anti-labor administrations and navigating systemic challenges in the industry.

Building the Union on the Picket Line: Lessons from the Kaiser Strike (Panel)

Learn how Kaiser mental health clinicians in Southern California got organized, moved through their fears and doubts, and ultimately used their open-ended strike as a platform to build solidarity, identify and support new leaders, and creatively engage patients and community to win their contract.

Together We Win: Inclusive Union Campaigns / Juntos Ganamos: Campañas Sindicales Inclusivas

Learn strategies for fostering inclusivity and solidarity in your union, including how to build diverse, representative leadership structures, how to run bilingual campaigns, and win gender-inclusive contract language.

Aprende estrategias para fomentar la inclusividad y solidaridad en tu sindicato, incluyendo cómo desarrollar estructuras de liderazgo diversas y representantivas, cómo liderar campañas bilingües, y cómo ganar lenguaje contractual inclusive en cuanto a géneros.