Summary

A US union local-level organizing toolkit from the AFL-CIO: issue identification, one-on-ones, assessments, organizing charts, sample scripts, and debrief forms. The standard US union internal-organizing curriculum.

Body

The AFL-CIO toolkit walks a union local through the steps of an internal-organizing campaign: identifying the issue that the members care about, building a one-on-one program with the membership, mapping the worksite and charting supporters, running a structured-issue campaign, and debriefing. The toolkit is written for local-union organizers but the methods transfer to community-organizing contexts. License: ARR (free PDF); paraphrase and link out. Verify the 2017 PDF link is still live. [source: afl-cio-internal-organizing-toolkit]

Use it for

Running a US union local internal-organizing campaign; training local-union organizers; adapting AFL-CIO methods to a community-organizing context.

Related

• affinity-groups
• coalition-building
• constructive-programme
• distributed-organizing
• framing-and-narrative
• leadership-development
• one-to-ones
• public-narrative

Open Questions

None yet.

Sources & verification

• afl-cio-internal-organizing-toolkit — grounding: secondary — RAW (ARR free PDF, link may need re-verification)

Verified 2026-07-01 by llm-qc.