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Unite & Win: The Workplace Organizer's Handbook

If there's anything we learned from the pandemic, it's that we rely on workers to keep this world turning. Unfortunately, at many companies, workers are treated as anything but essential. We created some illustrations for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's new book, Unite and Win to show workers how they can come together and win a better workplace together. 

 
 

Unite & Win: The Workplace Organizer’s Handbook

If there's anything we learned from the pandemic, it's that workers make the world go ‘round. Unfortunately, especially in lower wage jobs, workers are treated as anything but essential. We created some illustrations for the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's new book, Unite and Win to show workers how they can come together and win a better workplace together. 

Client: Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Art Direction: Daphna Thier and Down the Street
Illustration: Down the Street
Design: Stephen Crowe

 

Change is in your hands

We were so excited that Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) asked us to be a part of this project because we know just how valuable a tool this book can be.

It’s our labor that creates the success of the company we work for, and we spend most of our lives at work. Despite these facts, workers don’t control their lives while on the clock. This short book gives workers the tools they need to come together and fight for the change they deserve and shows us all how to wrestle back our lives back from the boss.

 

Full-page illustrations

With each part of the Unite and Win booklet, we created full-page illustrations to complement the section’s content.

Organizing your coworkers

The organizing committee

Escalation

Inoculation and the boss campaign


Spot Illustrations

Building your organizing committee

Running multi-racial, multi-lingual campaigns

Union members are the union

Remote workers can do it to!

Charting

Going public

Socialize before you organize


 

Process

For this project, we started with pencil sketches that were then brought into Adobe Illustrator to create final color shapes. After that, we brought the color illustrations into the iPad and applied additional detail, linework, and textures