The central objective of the Change to Win Strategic Organizing Center is to unite the more than 50 million American workers who work in industries that cannot be outsourced or shipped overseas into strong unions that can win them a place in the American middle class — where their jobs provide good wages, good health care, good pensions and a voice on the job.
Change to Win’s Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) develops and implements organizing campaigns to unite workers in these jobs to win better wages, benefits and working conditions — and to turn these jobs into good union jobs. The Strategic Organizing Center is a hub where Change to Win unions come together to integrate their organizing programs and to launch large scale organizing campaigns.
There was a time when blue-collar jobs in the auto, steel, electrical, rubber and other manufacturing industries were considered low wage jobs. Through union organization, these “low wage jobs” became “good paying jobs, with good benefits” that led to the creation of America’s middle class and defined the elements of the American Dream. Millions of those manufacturing jobs have been eliminated or shipped overseas in recent years.
Jobs in today’s growing service sector are the “low wage” jobs of today. Whether it is caring for the sick, attending to hotel guests, or transporting goods across the country, these jobs cannot be outsourced to foreign lands. They are critically important to the economy and to the quality of life in this country. And nowhere is it written that these jobs must be low wage-low benefit jobs. In fact, the wages and benefits of service workers that are represented by a union today are substantially higher than those that are not ...
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