Just a quick lil draft because i want to make this right. I also used the advice i got here to help me make it so thank you all!
Just a quick lil draft because i want to make this right. I also used the advice i got here to help me make it so thank you all!
i don’t know what your workplace is like or your coworkers, but if they’re just normal americans with no familiarity or instilled antipathy toward unions/communism then i would probably pull back a bit on the class war rhetoric. i would focus almost entirely on the concrete benefits they will personally enjoy from union membership, then use that as a bridge to discuss the sociopolitical aspects once the union is implemented.
i feel like most americans will reject the medicine unless you wrap in a slice of cheese first. either way, good luck!
“No war but class war” will instantly be recognized as a leftwing phrase. At best, a few people will nod along. At worst, someone in management will realize what it is and use it to discredit you. “See? Unions are bad! They’re full of communists who want to steal all your food by collecting dues! They’re
no betterworse than nazis!” is what they’ll say and people will gobble it up.The phrase I’d use instead is “Owners/management/executives aren’t your friend.” You need to call out the bourgeois for what they are without using leftist terms. You can spread class consciousness by showing your coworkers how the people above call them family, but don’t treat them like that. You can point out how the CEO doesn’t know anybody’s names and never invites them to personal events, something actual family does.
I agree with this. Giant “War on Workers” text and that framing is going to trigger the panic response in some people’s brain worms. It’s okay to allude to the troubles experienced by all workers and solidarity, in fact that’s great, but gotta count to 1,2,3 before skipping to 100 when beginning to deworm people.
i live in a major city and a lot of my colleagues are leftists or liberal kinda like Bernie types. i think they might get excited over the idea of a union and i have mentioned it before. I just need to be able to talk to them soon
if the audience is mostly left or left leaning then you’re doing fine. id still tone it down slightly, just to cast a wider net.
if you’re looking for a place to start: set up a private group chat and invite a few co workers you think would be most interested and trustworthy. that would be a good place to share something like this brochure. slowly invite more people, discuss who you think would be interested, what you want out of a union, post minion memes about how your boss sucks. try to keep it mostly ephemeral and anonymous; no printed documents, no records. even if you think management isn’t likely to fight you, its best to keep them locked out as much as possible until the union forms. this is the process a few of the dispensaries in vegas went through to get unionized.