I thought it might helpful to get a beginner’s perspective since people struggle so much with figuring out how to get started and imagining the first steps
How does it feel to know, concretely, that you’re cooler than you were a week ago?
It’s a hell of a feeling. Just keep your spirits up it can be a long haul. I’m going on year two of trying to unionize. It can be rough especially if it’s a large business with high turnover like retail has been lately. Just keep at it and hone your tactics to onboard new hires the second they express any sort of frustration
I appreciate the advice. We’ve had 5 resignations in the past week so I hadn’t even thought about new hires yet. I told my IWW contact to watch out for me overworking because I will absolutely hyperfocus and burn out if I don’t consciously try not to. I want this to be a marathon, but I absolutely have sprinter’s energy at the moment.
Based :ortega-clap:
Where do you work at? :fedposting:
How did you get so cool?
Management fucked over the entire company on health insurance. Made me real cool real quick
Have you dealt with any rats yet? As in people who say they’re interested and/or take lit and/or take a card, but then sell you out to management? That’s happened to me before.
Not so far. I have a pretty good relationship with the core group I’m working on, so hopefully it stays that way for a bit
Me personally? The first time it happened, we tried to just roll with the punches. Moved up the timetable, started organizing in the open. Most of us on the initial organizing committee got shitcanned, me included. But the union drive is still going on, I help out with flyering there sometimes.
The second time it happened, where I’m working at now, we put everything on ice. No movement for close to a year. Only started to pick things up again after the guy left the job in January.
