Get Involved: Tips for ESP Living Wage Campaigns

Ready to fight for a living wage in your area? These tip sheets are full of practical, proven tactics to help win professional, competitive pay.

Field-Tested Salary Campaign Tactics
Activists from 19 NEA state affiliates currently planning or engaged in salary campaigns offer up "what works."

A Salary Campaign Checklist
There's no one way to run a living wage campaign. Here's a checklist of strategies from NEA state affiliate leaders and staff who have run promising or successful pay initiatives.

Ten Ways You Can Work for Professional Pay
Just starting out? These tips will help you launch a salary campaign, including strategies for building community alliances.

Five Tips to Research a Living Wage
You'll need to put numbers to your campaign. Here are sources to help you calculate a living wage for your local community.

Ten Communications Tips for Living Wage Campaigns
Communicating effectively with your members, your school board, your community and the media is key to winning salary support. Here's how to do it.

Proven Tactics from KY ESPs
ESPs in five Kentucky counties launched a coordinated living wage campaign last year, and their tactics could pay off for you too.