LOCAL 318 · 3 SHOPS · 62% CARDS IN

Union canvassing software, card-check campaigns that keep every house call on record.

Beacon manages the field side of a labor program, including canvassing (visiting workers and members at home to talk in person). You import member lists, divide shops and neighborhoods, and send visit lists to steward phones. A live dashboard shows how many authorization cards (cards workers sign to show they want a union) organizers have recorded as signed. Beacon does not collect the card signatures. It records each conversation, the card status, and the follow-up at the door, with GPS and a timestamp. Visit history stays on each member's record across shift changes, so lead organizers and stewards work from the same record.

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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 shape around a shop's location or a member neighborhood, name it, and assign organizers and stewards. The members inside the boundary become a visit list, ordered by street so organizers making house calls do not cover the same blocks twice.

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 that keeps lead organizers and stewards on the same record.

Every house call is saved to the same record the campaign director sees on the support map, so there are no paper card stacks or spreadsheet hand-offs the night before filing.

/01, DESK

Campaign console

The office screen where you divide shops and neighborhoods, write talking points, and assign organizers. Its live support map fills in as the team works through its visit lists. The campaign director reviews the same view before every check-in.

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

/02, DOOR

Labor organizing app for stewards

The phone app for stewards. It holds the visit list, the member screen, the AI Script Coach (a paid add-on), and an upload queue. Anything recorded without cell signal is saved on the phone and uploaded when the connection returns.

Route-ordered visit list (auto-ordered by street)
Member screen with shift, role, grievances
AI Script Coach add-on, talking points per visit
Works offline · plant parking lots

/03, MAP

Live support tracking

Each visit updates the map as it happens. The dashboard shows cards collected by shop, support level by shift, and the most pressing grievances by department, so no one needs to run a report.

Real-time organizer location (opt-in, Growth plan and up)
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, with a visit history every steward can see.

When one steward records grievances, support level, and a follow-up flag at a house call, the next steward at the same door can see that history: shift, family details, the issues that matter, and what was said last time. The member does not have to start over on the third visit.

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 steps are the same for a 60-worker drive at a single shop and a 2,400-worker campaign across several sites. Most committees can finish the setup in an afternoon.

/01

Import the member list

Bring a worker list, member roster, or payroll export. Roles and shifts are tagged during import, and every address is placed on the map.

/02

Divide the territories

Draw shapes around shops, departments, and neighborhoods, and the members inside become a visit list. Each turf (the area assigned to one organizer) shows how many members it holds, so you can see when one has too many or too few.

/03

Make house calls and identify support

At each door, organizers use the door screen to record support from 1 to 5, grievance survey answers, and each worker's card status. This works offline, and the records upload as soon as signal returns.

/04

File-ready debrief

Live coverage, support by shift, and top organizers are totaled automatically. At filing time, you export the records with timestamps and GPS data intact for counsel review.

Drive types

Union canvassing software for every type of drive and conversation.

An organizing drive at a non-union plant and a contract-education effort for an existing local record different information. You set up Beacon around what each program needs to record, so the same account handles both.

Organizing drive

Organizing drive from majority to filing.

House calls aimed at a supermajority of signed cards, with card status, support ratings from 1 to 5, and a record of the pushback workers report. The dashboard shows the card percentage by shift and shop as it changes, so the campaign director can move organizers where 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
EXPORTVisit records with card status, GPS + timestamps

Contract education

Contract education and member outreach for unions.

Visit members before negotiations to record grievances, survey contract priorities, and identify who is ready to strike. The bargaining committee then has numbers from the whole 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

Endorsement canvassing

Endorsement canvassing for the local's slate.

After the local endorses candidates, members can canvass for them. Member-to-member persuasion, COPE requests (donations to the union's political fund), and GOTV (getting out the vote) efforts for the endorsed slate all use the same map and app, set to election mode.

Captures: Voted · Committed · Persuadable · Will Recruit

FILEMember list matched to the voter file and mapped
COPESuggested amounts for the political fund at the door
FLAGMembers interested in leading move to the recruit list automatically
COMPLYDesigned to keep the political fund separate from the general treasury

Organizer FAQ

Union canvassing software FAQ: questions lead organizers ask before they sign up.

/Q, CARDS

Does Beacon collect union card signatures?

No. Workers sign authorization cards outside Beacon. Organizers use Beacon to record each house call, the card status, and the follow-up, and each record includes GPS coordinates and a timestamp. The records are stored securely with an audit log and can be exported for your counsel to review.

/Q, PRICING

Is pricing per organizer?

No. Pricing is based on the number of members on your list (contacts), not the number of organizers, so 5 stewards or 50 cost the same. There are six tiers, from Starter at $59 (2,500 contacts) up to Enterprise at $599 (250K+).

/Q, OFFLINE

Does it work in plant parking lots and steel buildings?

Yes. The mobile app keeps working without cell signal. Visits are saved to the phone and uploaded to the server when the connection returns, so support ratings recorded inside a warehouse or steel building are not lost.

/Q, SECURITY

Who sees the support map?

Access depends on each person's role. Organizers see their own assignments, and lead organizers see the full campaign view. Member data is encrypted when stored, every view is logged, and management never gets the list.

/Q, INTEGRATION

How does Beacon work with CampaignCNX+ and Alma?

The CNX Suite has four products: Beacon, CampaignCNX+, Alma, and CoreCNX (a CRM). They can be bought together on one bill, and you sign in to each with the same email address. CampaignCNX+ is a separate texting product with its own plans and its own account, and a door result in Beacon does not start a CampaignCNX+ text. Beacon door results, appointments, and contact status are added to the member's record in CoreCNX. Alma, the website chatbot, is also a separate product with its own account.

/Q, SETUP

How quickly can a drive start?

Most drives are making house calls within three days of signing up. The account is live the same day. The member list imports while you draw your first turf, and visit lists are on steward phones by the next morning. A real person handles onboarding, and white-glove setup is available ($249 to $999).