Prospective apprentices can find out more about the program here, and apply here. Movement organizations considering hosting an apprentice can find out more here, and apply here. All applications are due
Miranda Xiong is currently a WILL Empower apprentice, organizing with the Charleston Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE). CAFE is a workers’ center which provides community support for labor in South Carolina. Xiong emphasizes how workers can take collective action with or without unions and how CAFE functions as a vehicle for unionization.
WILL Empower is pleased to welcome its eighth class of the WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program that identifies, develops and convenes a new generation of women, non-binary and trans staff members for the worker justice movement.
The 2024 / 25 WILL Empower Apprentices officially graduated from the program during a virtual commencement ceremony at the end of August. The class included 13 apprentices, and was the seventh class of apprentices. The WILL Empower Apprenticeship program builds labor leadership among women and non-binary people by placing apprentices with worker justice organization host sites for their first paid work in the movement.
Women’s leadership is having a big moment not just in politics, but also in labor and worker justice movements in the United States. In the
