Skills
Approaching each conversation with the thought that folks are with us! When we do, our tones, language, and body language reflect what we are thinking.
What is Assume Support?
The number of Working America members (as described by our website).
What is 3.5 Million?
Disaster commonly known as the catalyst for safer working conditions and a spark for the women’s suffrage movement.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Type of Working America campaign in which we focus on contacting previous members of Working America who have been canvassed in the past.
What is the Experimental model?
The five core issues.
What is good jobs, good healthcare, good education, secure retirement, and corporate accountability?
The way in which you engage with the person at the door and make sure that they are on the same page as you.
What is Levels of Agreement?
The year Working America was founded.
What is 2003?
1963 labor law establishing equal pay for equal work (despite its effectiveness).
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
The Working America office in which canvassers are fighting against wage theft.
What is the Philadelphia Office?
A short, amusing, and/or insightful story about a real incident or person
What is an anecdote?
Managing positivity on turf despite professional and personal challenges that may be happening.
What is Mood Management?
The city of Working America's headquarters.
What is Washington, D.C.?
1886 event protesting for the 8 hour work day and is the reason for May Day.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
The Working America office outside of Atlanta in which canvassers are fighting the housing crisis?
What is the Phoenix office?
The proper way to indicate that there were no additional or new trends in the messaging form, aside from what you put in the previous questions.
What is leave it blank?
Matching the other person's energy.
What is mirroring?
The founding director of Working America.
Who is Karen Nussbaum?
The year with the largest amounts of strikes in US history.
What is 1946?
The Working America office fighting for unemployment benefits.
What is the Durham office?
The correct way to describe a statement such as, "The government will never change, it's pointless to even try."
What is pessimistic?
The ability to read signs to determine how much effort to put into the conversation.
What is identifying support?
The president of the AFL-CIO.
Who is Liz Shuler?
The year of the AFL and CIO merger, which resulted in 1/3 of workers being a part of a union.
What is 1955?
Analysis of face-to-face conversations with working people on their top concerns
What is a Front-Porch-Focus-Group?
Getting an opinion or identification from a door without any influence of the canvasser, often used in voter contact?
What is a clean ID?