How to beat a billionaire

UNITE HERE Local 8 offering four-week organizing training and workshop series

SEATTLE, WA (June 3, 2025) — UNITE HERE Local 8, Seattle’s hospitality workers’ union, is recruiting for a four-week campaign workshop and volunteer opportunity, education and experience focused on aspects of building and winning union campaigns. Participants will work with the union’s campaign and research team to fight alongside workers campaigning for better pay and benefits and the right to organize a union.

Workshop session will cover skills needed to combat billionaire corporations and global private equity, new ways to think about campaign strategy, and opportunities to learn hands-on corporate research skills. There are also linked volunteer opportunities to put these lessons into action, participating in ongoing campaigns led by hotel housekeepers, kitchen workers and food servers.

Workshops will be at the UNITE HERE Local 8 SODO offices in Seattle (5030 1st Ave. S, Suite 201) and campaign work will take place all over the Puget Sound region.

There will be four workshops on the following dates, each from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.: Thursday, June 19th, Thursday, June 26th, Wednesday, July 2nd, and Thursday, July 10th. Local 8 is asking for a time commitment of a minimum of 8 hours per week during the four weeks of training.

There will be a one-hour virtual info session on June 5, 2025 at 5:30pm. Participation is encouraged but not required to apply. RSVP for the info session by emailing stefan@8.unitehere.org.

Space is limited to 10 participants. Apply today.