LOCAL 318 · 3 SHOPS · 62% CARDS IN

Union canvassing software — card-check campaigns that don't lose a single signature.

Beacon runs the field side of a labor program — member lists in, shops and neighborhoods cut, visit lists on steward phones, and card-collection coverage on a live dashboard. Authorization signatures are captured at the door with GPS, timestamp, and audit log, and member visit history carries across shift changes so lead organizers and stewards work from the same record.

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For: Locals & organizing committees
Organizers: Unlimited
Free trial: 14 days

LOCAL 318 · 62% TO MAJORITY

Beacon dashboard for a Local 318 organizing drive — authorization cards collected, support split, and active organizer count by shop

— Territories

Union canvassing territories — shops, neighborhoods, and locals on one map.

Draw a polygon around a shop's footprint or a member neighborhood, name it, and assign organizers and stewards. The member list inside the boundary becomes a visit list, ordered by street so house calls aren't doubling back over the same blocks.

Plant 1 — Day Shift 412 workers · 71% cards in
Plant 1 — Night Shift 298 workers · 44% cards in
Warehouse — Eastside 186 workers · 88% cards in
Member Neighborhoods — North 1,240 members · 31% visited
Member Neighborhoods — South 965 members · 52% visited

Beacon territories page showing color-coded shop and neighborhood polygons with live card-collection percentages

— The platform

Union canvassing software — lead organizer and steward on the same record.

Every house call writes to the same record the campaign director is looking at on the support map, so paper card stacks and spreadsheet hand-offs the night before filing aren't part of the workflow.

/01 — DESK

Campaign console

The desk-side console for cutting shops and neighborhoods, drafting talking points, and assigning organizers, with a live support map that fills in as the team works through its visit lists. It's the same view the campaign director reads before every check-in.

Member list import + role / shift tagging
Visit-list builder (universe → list)
Support 1-5 + grievance survey templates
Live support map & activity feed

/02 — DOOR

Labor organizing app for stewards

The mobile side of the platform, with the visit list, member screen, AI Script Coach, and sync queue all running on a steward's phone. Anything captured without cell signal is held locally and synced when the connection returns.

Route-ordered visit list (auto-ordered by street)
Member screen with shift, role, grievances
AI Script Coach — talking points per visit
Offline sync · works in plant parking lots

/03 — MAP

Live support tracking

Each visit updates the map as it happens, so cards collected by shop, support level by shift, and hot grievances by department are all visible on the dashboard without anyone needing to run a report.

Real-time organizer location (opt-in)
Shop coverage % live-updating
Support 1-5 split per shift
CSV export for filing prep & counsel review

Workers gathered on a shop floor for an organizing meeting

— On the porch

Member outreach for unions — past-touch history every steward inherits.

When one steward captures grievances, support level, and a follow-up flag at a house call, the next steward at the same door inherits the history — shift, family details, issues that matter, what was said last time. The third visit doesn't feel cold to the member.

Member visit log Per-member, per-organizer, timestamped
Grievance survey Custom forms · 5 question types
Support 1-5 Tagged at every visit, trend over time
Card status Signed · pending · refused · revoked

— How a drive runs

Union organizing drives from committee meeting to filing in four steps.

The loop is the same whether the program is a 60-worker single-shop drive or a 2,400-worker multi-site campaign. The setup work fits in an afternoon for most committees.

/01

Import the member list

Bring a worker list, member roster, or payroll export. Roles and shifts are tagged on the way in, and every address is geocoded.

/02

Cut the territories

Polygon shops, departments, and neighborhoods, and the members inside become a visit list, with auto-balance suggestions if turfs run too heavy or too light.

/03

House-call and ID

Organizers run the door screen — capturing support 1-5, grievance survey responses, and card sign-up — all offline-safe so it queues for sync the moment signal comes back.

/04

File-ready debrief

Live coverage, support split by shift, and top organizers all roll up automatically — then export at filing time with timestamps and GPS metadata intact for counsel review.

— Drive types

Union canvassing software for every drive type — same data model, different conversation.

An organizing drive at a non-union plant and a contract-education push for an existing local are different programs with different data needs. The platform configures around what each program is trying to capture, so the same install handles both.

Organizing drive

Organizing drive from majority to filing.

House calls toward the supermajority, with card sign-ups, support 1-5, and pushback tracking. The dashboard surfaces card percentage by shift and shop in real time so the campaign director can move resources where they're needed.

Captures: Card Signed · Strong · Leaning · Undecided · Hard No

UNIVERSEWorker list by shift, role, department
WAVESPre-shift, post-shift, off-day house calls
FLAGSPushback heard, captive audience, retaliation
EXPORTFiling-ready card pack with GPS + timestamps

Contract education

Contract education and member outreach for unions.

Walking the membership before negotiations, with grievance capture, contract-priority surveys, and strike-ready ID. The bargaining committee gets numbers from the membership instead of anecdotes from the room.

Captures: Top Issue · Strike-Ready · Steward-Interested · Grievance

SURVEYContract-priority capture per member
GRIEVANCEWorkplace issues logged with location
STRIKEStrike-ready ID for action planning
SYNCWebhook into CampaignCNX+ for member SMS

Endorsement canvassing

Endorsement canvassing for the local's slate.

When the local endorses, the local walks. Member-to-member persuasion, COPE asks, and GOTV pushes for the endorsed slate run on the same map and the same app, configured for election mode.

Captures: Voted · Committed · Persuadable · Will Recruit

FILEMember universe geocoded against voter file
COPEDoor-side ask amounts for the political fund
FLAGMember-leader interest auto-rolls to recruit list
COMPLYSeparation of treasuries clean by design

— Organizer FAQ

Union canvassing software FAQ — what lead organizers ask before they sign.

/Q — CARDS

Are digital cards filing-grade?

Signatures captured at the door include GPS coordinates and timestamp, stored securely with an audit log and exportable in the format your counsel files. Cards aren't lost to rain or to the drive home from the porch.

/Q — PRICING

Per organizer?

No — pricing is by the size of the member universe (contacts), not the organizer count, so bring 5 stewards or 50 for the same price. There are six tiers, from Starter at $59 (2,500 contacts) up to Enterprise at $599 (250K+).

/Q — OFFLINE

Plant parking lots? Steel buildings?

The mobile app continues to function without cell signal. Visits are saved to the phone and synced to the server when the connection returns, so support tags captured inside a warehouse or steel building aren't lost.

/Q — SECURITY

Who sees the support map?

Role-based access. Organizers see their own assignments; lead organizers see the campaign view. Member data is encrypted at rest and audit-logged on every read, and management never gets the list.

/Q — INTEGRATION

What about CampaignCNX+ and Alma?

One login across the suite. Door dispositions can trigger CampaignCNX+ member SMS sequences via webhook, and Alma writes inbound chatbot leads into Beacon visit lists. The three apps share a billing account and contacts move between them.

/Q — SETUP

How fast can a drive launch?

Most drives are house-calling within three days of signing up. The account is live the same day, the member list imports in the background while you draw your first turf, and visit lists are on steward phones by the next morning. Onboarding is handled by a real person, with white-glove setup available ($249–$999).

— Start organizing

Your first union organizing house calls go out this week.

Open an account, import your member list, and draw your shops. Within a few days your stewards will be out visiting with route-ordered lists and a card-status tracker on their phones.

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Setup: Same day
Onboarding: Real person, not a chatbot
Free trial: 14 days, full access, no card