Street Teams
Ready to organize for worker justice in your local community? Join your neighbourhood chapter of the Worker Solidarity Network’s Street Teams and build a labour future workers want to see!
Street Teams
What are Street Teams?
Street teams are small, localized “chapters” of WSN led by a member organizer where you conduct outreach and act as seeds from which collective action may grow. We will give you the materials you need and you can choose what to use. The dates to do outreach are up to you and your team, but we will also provide you with some suggested dates and times to help with easing the logistical issues.
More experienced members of street teams lead outreach, while newer members attain important leadership skills so that they may also one day lead their own team. By taking action together, members build solidarity and community with each other, and become involved in each others’ action-taking.
Your street team is based on a neighbourhood where you will meet at and engage in outreach activities such as petitioning, postering, canvassing, or anything else that may help grow the workers’ rights movement. Outreach is led by more experienced “leader” members of the street team, while WSN staff are there every step of the way for newer team members.
Upon starting the street teams program, you will receive a punch-card to keep track of the number of times you have done outreach. Once you reach 10 outreach days, WSN will issue you a certification to mark your completion.
How Workers Win Together
Under the worst conditions, workers in the past have built collective movements for justice and power. Workers organizing won the 8-hour workday, the two day weekend, the right to unionize, and have led movements for justice across the world. These were workers who faced eviction, state and corporate violence, struggled to make ends meet and pay rent and afford food – sound familiar?
They won because they came together with courage, community, and solidarity. Just as we can, together!
What Activities Do We Take?
Flyering
Handing out materials to passerbys, including know-your-rights materials, posters, and so forth.
Canvassing
Speaking to passerbys on streets and malls, signing them up for WSN, encouraging them to join the movement. Street teams will record the information of anyone who signs up for WSN membership and input it in our database.
Petitioning
Collecting signatures for various petitions and letter-writing campaigns; speaking about them to public, inputting signatures/letter-signers into our databases
Postering
Putting up posters and other materials in public places
View our events calendar
Click the image above to view all of our upcoming outreach events!
