Your local's technology, set up right and made to last.
Solidarity helps union locals in the Maryland and DC area get off personal Gmail accounts, clean up stale member lists, and put systems in place that survive officer turnover. The assessment is always free.
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Most locals run on a patchwork nobody designed on purpose.
- Official business on a personal Gmail — or a shared account two officers log into
- Contracts, bylaws, and minutes on someone's personal laptop, with no backup
- A member list that's two years old and 15% wrong, living on one officer's computer
- Grievances in a steward's notebook — when he's out, cases get missed
- No way to reach every member fast when something urgent comes up
- Passwords shared by several people, no two-factor, no clear way to recover access when someone leaves
Each of these is a member-service failure waiting to happen. The fix isn't complicated — it just requires someone who understands how a union actually runs.
How it works
A 30 to 45 minute conversation about the tools you're using today. You get a short written report with prioritized, plain-English recommendations and honest costs. No sales pitch, no obligation — the report is yours to keep either way.
You choose what's worth doing from the report. Anything over $200 gets a one-page agreement covering scope, timeline, and a flat fee — so you know the full cost before work starts.
Flat fee, 50% to begin. Most setups take one to two weeks. One of your own people is added as an administrator on day one, so your local is never locked out and never dependent on me.
A short training session plus a written summary of logins and how-tos, so your team runs it — not me. At the end, I remove my own access. You own everything.
Services and pricing
Flat-fee, transparent. Most locals start with the foundation and add from there.
Larger or more complex engagements — multiple worksites, larger data migrations, more staff users — are scoped case-by-case with the same flat-fee structure. Software subscriptions (Google, Microsoft, Squarespace) are billed directly by the vendor, roughly $42–70 a month for a small local. One honest note: unions are 501(c)(5), so the standard nonprofit free tiers don't apply — I'll never promise a discount that doesn't exist.
Why Solidarity, not a general IT consultant
A recommendation that requires an executive board vote is a different project than one the president can approve on a call. Solidarity scopes to how your local actually makes decisions.
Nearly every nonprofit software discount requires 501(c)(3) status. Unions are 501(c)(5). General consultants miss this constantly. We price to standard rates and won't get your local excited about a free tier it doesn't qualify for.
There are platforms built specifically for union locals — member management software, organizing tools, mass communication platforms with labor pricing. Most IT consultants don't know they exist. We know when they're worth recommending and when a general tool is the better fit.
A setup that your officers can't run, or that doesn't actually reach members, isn't a successful engagement. We check back in and count the work done only when the local is better off.