An excerpt from Running for Local Union Office: A Labor Notes Guide As your union election approaches, you’re going to have a lot of work to do. Texting and phone banking. Campaigning. Getting all the last-minute details right. Do you want to be doing all that work alone? You can’t run a campaign by yourself, any more than you can run a local by yourself. Strong unions involve rank-and-file members. So do strong campaigns. When most people think about their campaign team, they think, “Who can I get to run on my slate?” That’s obviously important. But you should go broader.