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These sort of organizations seem to have an approach with a handful of “political professionals” on the top with a bunch of underpaid canvassers, often short term, on the bottom that they’re banking on being more motivated by “fighting the good fight” maybe a few resume builders, rather than earning a fair paycheck. And yeah, I get the impression it’s a handful of politicos rebranding every few years, although that’s probably more to do with obfuscating the astroturfing than union avoidance. If they stick around too long then someone might go go sniffing and piece together who’s behind the curtain. Especially as a lot of entities exist to skirt campaign finance laws.

We've noticed that here after a few campaigns trying to unionize canvassers. As soon as they catch a whiff of organizing, they close up shop and an identical group pops up the next week doing the same shit.

It would probably be more effective to organize canvassers in a sort of industry or guild system instead of trying to organize each company's workers. If you've done any amount of canvassing, you know where all of the hot spots are and could find other canvassers to organize with pretty easily. The problem, like all union drives, is that people just want to get paid and go home, which I get, especially with how poorly they're paid.

I worked for an environmentalist canvassing org in Texas for about a month but I didn't stay long enough to find out their stance on unions. I'm not cut out to spend all day getting yelled at by people threatening to call the cops on me for knocking on their door. Also I just kind of got a weird vibe from them overall.