PROGRAMS

Learning from over a decade of organizing low-wage workers as part of the national Fight for $15 campaign, MWC organizers are trained in fundamental labor and community organizing techniques.

MWC maintains diverse coalition tables, convened by region, to support worker organizing campaigns and to drive statewide, issue-specific campaigns.

MWC is shifting harmful narratives about deservedness, work, and race to narratives that promote a family-sustaining economy for all workers, regardless of who they love, where they come from, or what they look like. MWC’s communications and organizing teams work directly with low-wage workers to develop their storytelling, public speaking, and media interview skills, as well as create opportunities for workers to share their stories in local and national media outlets, among other forums.

MWC works closely with other labor and community organizations to provide strategic campaign planning support. Our research, communications, and organizing teams coordinate to provide power mapping, policy analysis, direct organizing support and training, narrative development, and communications support to drive comprehensive campaigns. For example, these campaigns have demanded good jobs and affordable housing from billion-dollar sports franchises and good union jobs in our municipal transit system.

Voting is one of the most important tools that workers have to improve their own lives. MWC’s civic engagement, organizing, and communications teams collaborate to educate voters on relevant issues, expand the electorate by registering new voters, and maximize participation in our democracy through our voter education and mobilization program. MWC has engaged tens of thousands of voters to pass statewide initiatives to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, guarantee up to seven days of earned sick leave, and secure Missourians’ right to make their own health care decisions, including abortion.