LOCAL 318 · 3 SHOPS · 62% CARDS IN

Labor union organizing — card-check campaigns that don't lose a single signature.

Authorization signatures captured at the door. GPS-verified, timestamped, audit-ready. Member visit history that survives shift changes. The same map your lead organizer and your stewards work from — built for organizing drives, contract education, and member outreach.

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LOCAL 318 · 62% TO MAJORITY
Beacon dashboard for a Local 318 organizing drive — authorization cards collected, support split, and active organizer count by shop
Built for  organizing drives · contract education · member outreach · endorsement canvassing · COPE drives part of the CNX Suite · with CampaignCNX+ & Alma

— Territories

Shops, neighborhoods, and locals on one map.

Polygon a shop's footprint or a member neighborhood. Assign organizers and stewards. The member list inside the boundary becomes a visit list — auto-ordered by street so house calls don't double back.

  • Plant 1 — Day Shift 412 workers · 71% cards in
  • Plant 1 — Night Shift 298 workers · 44% cards in
  • Warehouse — Eastside 186 workers · 88% cards in
  • Member Neighborhoods — North 1,240 members · 31% visited
  • Member Neighborhoods — South 965 members · 52% visited
Beacon territories page showing color-coded shop and neighborhood polygons with live card-collection percentages

— The platform

Lead organizer at the desk. Steward at the door. Same record.

No clipboard cards going missing on the drive home. No spreadsheet hand-offs the night before filing. Every house call writes to the same record the campaign director sees on the support map.

/01 — DESK

Campaign console

Cut shops and neighborhoods, draft talking points, assign organizers, watch the support map fill in. The dashboard your campaign director reads before every check-in.

  • Member list import + role / shift tagging
  • Visit-list builder (universe → list)
  • Support 1-5 + grievance survey templates
  • Live support map & activity feed

/02 — DOOR

Organizer app

What your stewards actually use on the porch. Visit list, member screen, AI talking-point coach, sync. Works offline; queues up everything for when signal returns.

  • Route-ordered visit list (auto-ordered by street)
  • Member screen with shift, role, grievances
  • AI Script Coach — talking points per visit
  • Offline sync · works in plant parking lots

/03 — MAP

Live support tracking

Every visit pings the map in real time. Cards collected by shop, support level by shift, hot grievances by department — the numbers your bargaining committee will read in tomorrow's meeting.

  • Real-time organizer location (opt-in)
  • Shop coverage % live-updating
  • Support 1-5 split per shift
  • CSV export for filing prep & counsel review
Workers gathered on a shop floor for an organizing meeting

— On the porch

Past-touch history every steward inherits.

Steward A talks to a member at 7pm Tuesday — captures grievances, support level, follow-up flag. Steward B knocks the same door Thursday morning. The history is right there: shift, family details, the issues that matter, what was said last time. House calls stop feeling cold to the member on the third visit.

  • Member visit log Per-member, per-organizer, timestamped
  • Grievance survey Custom forms · 5 question types
  • Support 1-5 Tagged at every visit, trend over time
  • Card status Signed · pending · refused · revoked

— How a drive runs

From committee meeting to filing in four steps.

The same loop whether you're organizing 60 workers in a single shop or 2,400 across a multi-site campaign.

/01

Import the member list

Worker list, member roster, payroll export — bring whatever you've got. Roles tagged, shifts tagged, every address geocoded.

/02

Cut the territories

Polygon shops, departments, neighborhoods. The members inside become a visit list. Auto-balance suggestions if turfs run too heavy or too light.

/03

House-call and ID

Organizers run the door screen. Support 1-5, grievance survey, card sign-up. Offline-safe; queues for sync the moment signal comes back.

/04

File-ready debrief

Live coverage, support split by shift, top organizers. Export at filing time with timestamps and GPS metadata intact for counsel review.

— Drive types

Same data model. The conversation changes.

An organizing drive at a non-union plant and a contract-education push for an existing local aren't the same job. The platform configures around what each program is trying to capture.

Organizing drive

From majority to filing.

House calls toward the supermajority. Card sign-ups, support 1-5, anti-union pushback tracking. The dashboard the campaign director watches between committee meetings.

Captures: Card Signed · Strong · Leaning · Undecided · Hard No

  • UNIVERSEWorker list by shift, role, department
  • WAVESPre-shift, post-shift, off-day house calls
  • FLAGSPushback heard, captive audience, retaliation
  • EXPORTFiling-ready card pack with GPS + timestamps
Contract education

Member outreach for the bargaining cycle.

Walking the membership before negotiations. Grievance capture, contract-priority surveys, strike-ready ID. Bargaining committee gets actual numbers, not anecdotes.

Captures: Top Issue · Strike-Ready · Steward-Interested · Grievance

  • SURVEYContract-priority capture per member
  • GRIEVANCEWorkplace issues logged with location
  • STRIKEStrike-ready ID for action planning
  • SYNCWebhook into CampaignCNX+ for member SMS
Endorsement canvassing

Walking for endorsed candidates.

When the local endorses, the local walks. Member-to-member persuasion, COPE asks, GOTV pushes for the endorsed slate. Same map, same app, switched into election mode.

Captures: Voted · Committed · Persuadable · Will Recruit

  • FILEMember universe geocoded against voter file
  • COPEDoor-side ask amounts for the political fund
  • FLAGMember-leader interest auto-rolls to recruit list
  • COMPLYSeparation of treasuries clean by design

— Organizer FAQ

The questions lead organizers ask before they sign.

/Q — CARDS

Are digital cards filing-grade?

Signatures captured at the door include GPS coordinates and timestamp. Stored securely with audit log. Export in the format your counsel files. Every card is preserved — the rain on the back porch never destroyed one.

/Q — PRICING

Per organizer?

No. Pricing is by the size of the member universe (contacts), not the organizer count. Bring 5 stewards or 50 — same price. Six tiers; Starter $59 (2,500 contacts) up to Enterprise $599 (250K+).

/Q — OFFLINE

Plant parking lots? Steel buildings?

The mobile app keeps working without cell signal. Visits are saved on the phone and sent to the server when signal returns. Designed around dead-zone shops; no organizer ever loses a support tag because they walked into a warehouse.

/Q — SECURITY

Who sees the support map?

Role-based access: organizers see their own assignments, lead organizers see the campaign view. Member data is encrypted at rest, audit-logged on every read. Management never gets the list.

/Q — INTEGRATION

What about CampaignCNX+ and Alma?

Same login. Door dispositions trigger member SMS sequences via webhook. Alma captures website conversations and writes the leads into Beacon visit lists. Three apps, one account, member contacts flow between them.

/Q — SETUP

How fast can a drive launch?

Most drives are house-calling in under three days. Same-day account, member list imports while you draw your first turf, visit lists in steward pockets the next morning. Real human onboarding ($249–$999 white-glove).

— Start organizing

Your first house calls go out this week.

Open an account, import your member list, draw your shops. By the next shift change your stewards are visiting with route-ordered lists and a card-status tracker in their pockets.

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