Organizer / Organizer-In-Training – Service, Hospitality, Healthcare, and Other Workers : Wisconsin

MASH
Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Organization

Organizer / Organizer-In-Training
Service, Hospitality, Healthcare, and Other Workers

Based in Madison, WI

We are seeking passionate people interested in labor organizing to build a multi-sector, multi-racial workers movement with MASH.

MASH is an organization of service, hospitality and other low-wage workers building collective power to raise standards in our industries. We are working to win sectoral standards through a multi-employer, industry-wide initiative and comprehensive campaign. We also partner with other unions to build bold, innovative campaigns to win for workers in the 21st century economy.

MASH is hiring organizers to move an ambitious, aggressive program to build power amongst workers and raise standards, from workplaces to the industry as a whole. MASH is hiring organizers on campaigns to win union recognition and build industry-/sector-wide organization and bargaining.

MASH started in Milwaukee, where we are based today. We are hiring for a project in Madison; candidates should expect to work in Madison.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading workers in struggle; organizing workers to take collective responsibility for transformation of their lives and their community; developing the capabilities of ordinary working people to change the world, starting with their own livelihood
• Worker outreach, building relationships, leadership development, building committees, holding meetings, conducting actions, and inspiring and motivating workers to mobilize in struggle
• Moving workers to action and moving turf to build winning campaigns, through structure and organization that creates the power of strength in numbers
• Developing supporters into activists, cultivating workplace leaders into union leaders, and building the organizational structure of a workers’ movement

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated leadership ability
• Organizers-in-training typically have activist experience in politics, community organizing, labor struggles, or other movement work; activist experience not necessarily a requirement
• Commitment to economic, racial and social justice; understanding of power.
• Ability and willingness to work long and irregular hours, including nights and weekends.
• Excellent listening, oral and written communication skills.
• Basic computer literacy and ability to learn the organization’s tools.
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team.
• Ability to be coached and trained, to be held accountable, and to struggle through difficulty.
• Willingness to conduct work site and home visits.
• Resourcefulness, persistence, loyalty and integrity and strong skills in planning, time-management and problem-solving are a must
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Possession of a valid U.S. driver’s license, proof of auto insurance, and an automobile for business use.

Compensation:
Salary ranges starting at $42,000/annual for organizers-in-training, with opportunity for rapid promotion; benefits include fully employer-paid health, dental and vision insurance; cell phone allowance; generous paid time off; and, 6% salary employer contribution to 401(k) account beginning after 6 months of employment . This is a full-time, salaried, overtime-exempt position. MASH provides numerous opportunities to advance and take on interesting, meaningful work.

Application Requirements:
A résumé should be sent to denise.lowe@mashworkers.org with the subject line “Organizer-In-Training Application”; no cover letter is required but the email should briefly state why you are interested in organizing with MASH to build the workers movement.

People of color, women, LGBTQ people, and working class and poor people strongly encouraged to apply.

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