Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter examines the role of the US Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), established during the COVID pandemic to facilitate the organizing of workers from the perspective of the power resources approach. To organize workers, EWOC has exercised different institutional, coalitional, societal, and structural powers, but following ongoing debates in the power resources approach (PRA), this chapter pays special attention to the role played by EWOC's development of worker associational power. Associational power enables workers to both act upon their other powers and to move from an initial mobilization based on grievances and injustice to organization, or sustained empowerment, including unionization. EWOC has scored some important successes; however, it confronts critical challenges in augmenting worker associational agency, including the need to ‘scale up’ worker organization. In part, these reflect that workers powers often have contradictory, ambivalent impacts which could inhibit both EWOC and US unions. The chapter concludes by arguing that the power resources approach needs to pay closer attention to both the micro-politics of workplace associational power, the macro-political economy of labour, and the relationship between them.</jats:p>