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UFCW OUTreach is offering five full-paid scholarships for rank and file UFCW members to attend next year’s Creating Change Conference in San Francisco. The conference, which will take place on Feb. 17 to 21, 2023, is organized by the national LGBTQ Task Force.

This is the sixth year that UFCW OUTreach has provided scholarships to the Creating Change Conference, which is the foremost political, leadership, and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ+ social justice movement. Scholarship recipients will learn about a broad range of social justice issues and develop skills to bring back to their workplaces and local unions.  Past session topics have included labor, gender equality, community organizing, criminal justice, immigration and more.

UFCW OUTreach Executive Board members attending the conference each year have served as a key voice for issues impacting hard-working families and the labor movement. Providing scholarships to UFCW members helps our union family to strengthen new member recruitment and develop new leaders within our union and in the broader LGBTQ+ movement.

The submission deadline for the five scholarships is Monday, Nov. 28. You can get more information about UFCW OUTreach scholarships to this important conference here.

If you have any questions or want to learn more about UFCW OUTreach, contact Michele Kessler at MKessler@ufcw1776.org.

Last week, 11 UFCW members from across the country gathered in Minneapolis with staff from the Legislative and Political Action Department (LAPAD) for a Political Member Organizer Leads training ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. These newly trained members will anchor the 2022 political program by directing and supporting Political Member Organizers as they work to engage UFCW members to vote in the midterm elections.

The week-long training focused on preparing Political Member Organizer Leads to train and manage teams of Political Member Organizers in their respective states who will conduct voter registration drives door to door, over the phone, and at worksites. Political Member Organizer Leads learned how to conduct worksite visits, have effective conversations with members about issues, and utilize a variety of tools to complete these tasks.

The energy and enthusiasm in the room was high and our Political Member Organizer Leads left motivated and equipped to make sure their fellow members understand what is at stake in the upcoming midterm elections and have the information they need to make their voices heard in November. The UFCW Political Member Program is in great hands with this group of leaders, and we applaud them for stepping up to lead our work in 2022.

If your local is interested in learning more about LAPAD trainings for members, contact International Vice President and Director of the LAPAD Ademola Oyefeso at aoyefeso@ufcw.org.