I’m a fed is so much easier

So many good resources and advice in here. You will find what I say through any of these resources, but one I want to highlight is organize yourselves and then get a union involved.

Unionizing with an organization can often give you a false sense of security that they will protect you if you or any of your coworkers get fired. They most likely won’t. They don’t have the money or resources necessary for a lengthy court battle for non dues paying members. And organizing yourselves gives you power during negotiations so the org doesn’t have as much power over the workers bc you did it for yourself.

Get to know your coworkers and get them to trust you. Talk to people you haven’t talked with much. Organizing is won in personal relationships. It’s not won in emails, flyers, etc. also get to know their issue and how it affects them personally. Questions like “What’s that like for you?” “How does that affect you and your family?”

Another quality question: “Do you think the boss should make 100% of the decisions about our wages, benefits, and working conditions or do you think we should be apart of that decision making process?”

Most workers will say things like I will sign a card when the time comes or I don’t really care about this job. These discussions are a lot easier when you have a personal relationship.

Super key is inoculation, tell your coworkers what management is going to do because there’s nothing worse than you start getting close to winning then management gets wind of it and starts doing all the things and everyone flips because they weren’t aware it would be happening. 3 top phrases from bosses. You’re not allowed to talk about that at work… you are, they’re lying. It will be so expensive… people mostly want a union for more money no one is going to agree to lose money… A union is a third party going to cause disruption… a union is you and your coworkers. They will also offer raises and coffees and all sorts of perks. Once the threat of the union is gone so is all of that.

Organizing convos:

1. Talk about things they like about working there
2. Things they want to change.
3. Point to how both things they like and things they want to change are solely in managements control.
4. Find a union win in your job sector. Point to what workers did to win that and ask what it would mean for them to have that. (Bonus if it connects to their issues which is why you want a bunch of these in the back pocket).
5. Ask them if they support forming a union. (Clearly and directly)
6. Inoculation as i mentioned earlier.
7. This is how we win… Getting list of all coworkers. Talking to them. And building support. Stop talking to people who aren’t supportive immediately about anything Union related. Get to 60-70% support. Take it to a Union. Vote.
8. Action. Who can you talk to? What list can you get? Who can you start building relationships with?

At some point create a group chat so people can get updates and information about what’s happening and it’s relayed quickly.

Both 0% and 95% strongly approve, only 4% somewhat. Also he was really down bad on 2/17 86% wonder how he shored up that last 13%.

In the Democratic Republican of Korea the leader just makes up stuff about himself.

What would be really something is if they went back tomorrow

So you’re saying you can just do things when you have power. Fucking wild stuff.

I’m here fora good time.

Damn he could’ve gone with Pope Francis II

“Failure to win the war.”

Me too

I hate the love languages stuff. Not bc it’s not true that ppl have different wants, but that shit changes by the hour.

My neck, my back….

I just canceled my pre order

Seagulls vibin

3500 yrs of this 7 more to go

Lots of people are saying this

Honestly this is once again big win for the global south. It was terrifying when he was going to just stop trade globally, now it’s pretty much just an own goals. I’m here for it

You don’t understand them stealing your labor is for the good of innnnovaaaaation

I heard Vijay Prashad talking about leftists have to be more likable and do less of the infighting shit because it’s unappealing to outsiders and I’m just not sure I agree that’s the problem. It’s usually the easiest thing to point to as if we just were more approachable more people would want to join a communist organization.

I think it comes down to power and material impact. Arguing and disagreeing over small shit is done by all parties and yet they still have power because they hold onto it and wield it with ease.

One thing he did say that struck a nerve is he was talking about China being a serious country. The imperial core is not serious, but that doesn’t mean our effort to organize and build solidarity within the working class shouldn’t be taken seriously. The Black Panthers are great example of this. They were serious about what they were doing and that is why when they built power and people trusted them.

This is also more of a self reflection in what I could work on as I’m organizing.

Idk I feel technology will be the one thing to persist. Countries may be submerged, hospitals, food, clean water etc may all become fucked, but somewhere in the world technology will develop and persist.

Nuclear winter is the only thing threatening technology and even then it probably just stops for a while and once the ruling class gets out of their silos the same shit continues.

Yeah US is going to attack again bc they never agreed to stop attacking the ships