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
Escalation
The Organizing Committee
Inoculation and the Boss Campaign
Spot Illustrations
Building your organizing committee
Union members are the union
Running multi-racial, multi-lingual campaigns
Remote workers can do it too!
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.
