As thousands of workers push to unionize, their bosses are hiring union-busting companies to cling to power. Here’s how you can out-organize your boss.
All of these platforms examples point out challenges with the physical situations of workplaces. Where people gather, where they talk, etc. Is there a good reason organizing isn’t happening off-work or online? For example, getting employees in a WhatsApp group. In my mind this should be easier to achieve. Then you can do your organizing business from there. Couldn’t you circumvent on-premises union busting efforts this way? Once you have off-prem comms, you could do card signing and all that off-prem. Am I naive in thinking that? Maybe it’s already done but what I see in this article doesn’t hint at it.
One could even leverage LinkedIn to contact employees without ever setting foot at the workplace. Yes not all people use it but it could start a network. The person on LinkedIn knows a few that aren’t on LinkedIn. Here’s the WhatsApp link, forward it.
I’m a complete layman when it comes to this topic so I might be missing some obvious issues.
Just requiring you to do it outside of work will already make it so a lot of people can’t, won’t, or don’t want to do it. Which is effectively union busting as well. Maybe if you have a tiny workplace of like 10 or less. But if 20 people can’t or won’t join after work in a place of 100 people it’s a big deal
All of these platforms examples point out challenges with the physical situations of workplaces. Where people gather, where they talk, etc. Is there a good reason organizing isn’t happening off-work or online? For example, getting employees in a WhatsApp group. In my mind this should be easier to achieve. Then you can do your organizing business from there. Couldn’t you circumvent on-premises union busting efforts this way? Once you have off-prem comms, you could do card signing and all that off-prem. Am I naive in thinking that? Maybe it’s already done but what I see in this article doesn’t hint at it.
One could even leverage LinkedIn to contact employees without ever setting foot at the workplace. Yes not all people use it but it could start a network. The person on LinkedIn knows a few that aren’t on LinkedIn. Here’s the WhatsApp link, forward it.
I’m a complete layman when it comes to this topic so I might be missing some obvious issues.
Just requiring you to do it outside of work will already make it so a lot of people can’t, won’t, or don’t want to do it. Which is effectively union busting as well. Maybe if you have a tiny workplace of like 10 or less. But if 20 people can’t or won’t join after work in a place of 100 people it’s a big deal
I see. But if on an alternate planet people would spend the extra time out of work, it would make organizing much easier wouldn’t it?