The Blitz Model of Union Organizing

The first phase was list building, and we built lists of all the workers who worked in these three facilities. The Blitz is that you can quietly build lists of workers ahead of a weekend when you're going to kick off the campaign publicly. And then kicked off the campaign on one weekend when we tried to do 500 house calls in 48 hours. It was a massive operation,. One of them we actually were made in the week before campaign. That's still the largest non union laundry in Phoenix today. It's never been organized because the company found out before we were able to talk to majority of the workers. We held organizing committee meetings on Sunday night before workers had to go back into the factory