If you can’t set up a one on one, go to one of their Organizing 101 meeting, especially if you’re already a paying member. Most likely Organizers will be there and you will learn the same things you’ll learn in meeting with them. The end goal of any union that sets up with the IWW is that eventually enough of your co-workers also become organizers at your workplace and then you can stop meeting with the IWW and hold your own meetings.
In the meantime the biggest thing you can start on while waiting to hear from an organizer is to start social mapping your workplace, identify social leaders and start listening to what your co-workers are also complaining about. You’re going to have to do the thing all Hexbear users hate, Socializing IRL. Just remember listen 80% of the time and talk 20% of the other time.
Don’t straight up use the “Union” Word around folks unless you think they’re in to be on the Organizing committee
I was trying to get one of the other organizers to go to one of their 101 sessions since they used to have them all the time, but it looks like they no longer do in that area. I assume COVID killed it first, and then nobody ever really got it going again.
If you can’t set up a one on one, go to one of their Organizing 101 meeting, especially if you’re already a paying member. Most likely Organizers will be there and you will learn the same things you’ll learn in meeting with them. The end goal of any union that sets up with the IWW is that eventually enough of your co-workers also become organizers at your workplace and then you can stop meeting with the IWW and hold your own meetings.
In the meantime the biggest thing you can start on while waiting to hear from an organizer is to start social mapping your workplace, identify social leaders and start listening to what your co-workers are also complaining about. You’re going to have to do the thing all Hexbear users hate, Socializing IRL. Just remember listen 80% of the time and talk 20% of the other time.
Don’t straight up use the “Union” Word around folks unless you think they’re in to be on the Organizing committee
I was trying to get one of the other organizers to go to one of their 101 sessions since they used to have them all the time, but it looks like they no longer do in that area. I assume COVID killed it first, and then nobody ever really got it going again.