The central objective of the Change to Win Strategic Organizing Center is to unite the more than 50 million American workers who work in industries that cannot be outsourced or shipped overseas into strong unions that can win them a place in the American middle class — where their jobs provide good wages, good health care, good pensions and a voice on the job.

Change to Win’s Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) develops and implements organizing campaigns to unite workers in these jobs to win better wages, benefits and working conditions — and to turn these jobs into good union jobs. The Strategic Organizing Center is a hub where Change to Win unions come together to integrate their organizing programs and to launch large scale organizing campaigns.

Workers built America’s middle class by organizing themselves into unions. Unions made the American Dream a reality for millions of workers. The Strategic Organizing Center makes it possible to do it again.

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Working men and women join unions to get better wages, better benefits and a better life for themselves and their families. We came together to organize and as long as we keep that focus the working men and women of America will see a better future. — President Douglas J. McCarron, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America