cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
Tell that to all the people who’ve been on Union wait lists for years.
https://www.iww.org/membership/ It’s literally the easiest thing in the world to become a member. There’s strength in numbers, so please join.
How will this help me get off the waitlist and into a union job?
This will get you to be a union member and you will be able to bargain collectively.
The high paying jobs will come once enough people are organized in your industry. You can’t have it the other way around.
I’d be unemployed, who would I be collectively bargaining with, the welfare office?
The high paying jobs already exist. They exist because the industry is already organized. Those high paying jobs are union jobs. Jobs I’m ineligible for because I’m not in the union. Because I’m still on the waitlist.
How does that help me at all?
What you want is more people join unions so that eventually all jobs are unionized, because otherwise it’s hard to find workers. That will lead to a different dynamic between employer and employee.
One thing you can do now is join the iww for example. They can’t help you if you are forced to take a shitty job now, but if more people join you’ll eventually have power at your job.
Pretty easy if you’re not just focused on your own immediate benefits…
If nobody joins nothing will change for sure
More people would love to join the unions, but they can’t, because they’re on waitlists to join the unions.
If the IWW can’t help you actually get into your local union, then they’re not helping anybody.
Sure it’s helpful you’ll be organized for whatever comes up.
Organized with who, for what? The unemployment office? What’s going to come up there?