Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ethan is a strategic organizer and project planner with nearly two decades of experience in the labour movement. He founded Campaign Gears Ltd. in 2012, combining the fight for social justice with a passion for digital technology (he loves making databases, he admits it). He continues in that role while also serving as Communications Specialist - Campaign Strategy for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CampaignGears is a company dedicated to helping you achieve your goals in progressive campaigning. We assist you with: * strategy * implementation * training and * ongoing support for non-profit and progressive campaigns both in the digital world and off-line.
• directly supervised two organizing staff • coordinated six staff representatives from across Canada to evaluate organizing targets, oversaw research and campaign prep, and membership development for organizing • personally conducted 4 organizing campaigns which were all successful • assisted staff representatives prepare the membership in workplaces entering the open period
• oversaw more than 60 Ontario Labour Relations Board votes (with an 80% success rate) including strategy and messaging, building worker committees, and legal processes • frequently campaigned on bargaining issues and oversaw organizers using grievances as an organizing tool • produced communications materials for votes including press releases, flyers, emails • served as staff representative for social service workers including grievances, contract interpretation and education and bargaining using popular education techniques to rebuild trust of the membership
(Unite Here was a predecessor union to Workers United) • maintained the public profile of Niagara Regional local and the issues faced by its membership who primarily work in tourism • conducted campaigns to exert community pressure upon employers • built relationships between the union and federal, provincial, municipal, and community leaders • worked with executive board to produce monthly newsletter and ensure member involvement in organizing