What We Do / Movement Building
Movement Building
In order to take power from corporations, workers and their allies need a dramatic increase in the number of organized workers in labor unions and worker centers. We believe to achieve this goal we need:
A vision, platform, agenda, and strategy to win changes that drive at deep, structural barriers to power and take years – not months – to accomplish; and
The infrastructure and capacity to align a critical mass of the worker movement around these goals and the work to achieve them.
Photo gallery of convenings
2024 Worker Convening at UC Davis Community and Labor Center
CCWP convened over 300 individuals from 80 organizations at California’s first Worker Power Assembly in May 2024. It united staff and worker-leaders from unions, worker centers, advocacy organizations, and community-based groups to build community and share strategies for strengthening worker power. Rank & file leaders of worksite campaigns spoke at the Assembly and attendees chose from over a dozen participatory workshops on topics including climate and worksite safety, retaliation, labor/community partnerships, and organizing in rural communities.
2025 Worker Convening at Los Angeles
In November CCWP collaborated with SEIU-USWW and the Central Valley Worker Coalition to host its second annual worker gathering to build community among workers and create a vision for a future centering workers. With over 150 participating members, we brought together 40 unique organizations across the state to build relationships and share experiences, reflect on our role in fighting back against the terror in our communities, and envision a future where workers have power at their workplaces and lives.
2026 Worker Organizing Convening
In 2026, CCWP organized a worker organizing convening to engage in a conversation about building worker power through organizing. We created an analysis to understand the ranges of challenges in worker organizing across regions, deepened relationships with one another, and created opportunity to use our movement as a vehicle to lead a statewide organizing campaign in the future.
