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- The IWW's list of Resources
- AFL-CIO guide on union organizing
- libcom.org
- Labour Notes
- The Union-Busting Playbook
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Yea, I think where it falls a bit short is that it's hard to get people on your side without also supporting and caring for the workers' other grievances like layoffs, benefits being cut, performance pressures, etc.
It's very similar to the PSL style of organizing where they hold big protests largely on social issues but they don't actually try to connect with the local communities and help them out materially. So they're capturing the support and attention of a lot of the advanced but do nothing for the moderate
Mhm. I'm not sure what the Alphabet union's line was, but they don't seem to have gotten very far. A lot of this is bootstrapping - can't make real material gains until you have enough workers on board, can't get enough workers on board without real material gains. So I'm sympathetic to the arguments for unit level organization.