Current Organizing Campaigns
Change to Win has focused its resources on organizing workers into unions. This focus has been written into its governing documents, which require at least 75% of CtW's resources and budget to be allocated to organizing programs.
CtW and its affiliate unions are currently running seven campaigns to organize workers in industries considered "core" to CtW unions. These campaigns are:
- Make Work Pay: Make Work Pay is a general organizing campaign aimed at improving wages and working conditions for working people.
- Justice at Smithfield: Organizes workers at Smithfield Foods pork-packing plants. Smithfield has been accused of human rights violations for its treatment of workers by international human rights group Human Rights Watch.
- Ports Protection: Organizes truck drivers who move cargo from port facilities out to warehouses and businesses.
- Wal-Mart Campaign: Organizes workers in Wal-Mart stores.
- Driving Up Standards Together: Organizes school bus drivers and monitors across the country. An international campaign coordinated with the UK's Transport and General Workers Union (now part of the United Kingdom trades union "Unite").
- Uniform Justice: Organizes employees of Cintas, North America's most profitable uniform and laundry company.
- Cure CVS: Organizes CVS/Pharmacy and criticize its practices.
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