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Labor Education Academy
Free Skills for Stronger Workers, Stewards & Unions. Self-paced modules, real workplace scenarios, a quiz for every module — and a printable Certificate of Completion for each course you finish.
6 Lessons · Final Exam · For Everyone
Labor History 101
Start here: understanding unions and the American labor movement — the strikes, the victories, and the people who won the weekend.
Certificate of Completion included
31 Modules · 6 Certification Levels
Steward Training Program
The complete steward curriculum — grievance handling, Weingarten rights, just cause, and representation skills — with a free certificate at every level.
5 Modules · Steward Track
Grievance Writing Workshop
Facts not adjectives, contract citations, remedies an arbitrator can grant, deadlines, and drafting practice — write grievances that win.
5 Modules · For Everyone
Organizing School
One-on-one conversations, workplace mapping, inoculation against the boss's playbook, structure tests, and winning the first contract.
5 Modules · Steward & Officer Track
Arbitration Training
Screening cases, building the file, evidence and witnesses, the hearing, and enforcing the award — how unions win the final step.
6 Modules · For Everyone
Negotiation School
BATNA, interests vs. positions, anchoring, grievance meetings, and the bargaining table — the $1,600 executive frameworks, rebuilt free for working people.
5 Modules · For Everyone
AI & Workers
What AI is (and isn't), algorithmic management and surveillance, the five union principles, bargaining over technology, and the new workforce model — pro-worker control, training, and shared prosperity.
8 Lessons · Movement Building · For Everyone
Vonda McDaniel School of Movement Building
The life and lessons of Sister Vonda McDaniel — coalition building, storytelling, and movements that outlast any single campaign.
Movement Builder Certificate included
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