Hmm...I don't know my friend, look what UE has pulled off. I mean, they've struck and successfully organized public sector workers in a state where public sector collective bargaining and striking is illegal. I guess my point is, yeah, RTW is shit and it makes organizing really fucking hard, but it seems you want to create a network of workers who will engage in direct action in the workplace. A union by any other name...
I don't oppose what you're doing, it just seems to me we shouldn't allow ourselves to be limited by the laws of the state. If we're successful enough, the state is going to outlaw our actions eventually anyway. I've actually come to see the bright side of RTW: if we can ever succeed in getting something started, those repressive laws will actually force the southern labor movement to be militant and involve the workers directly. It's the only way the unions could succeed down here. I actually just read a really good article on how non-NLRB campaigns are statistically more successful and more militant than their NLRB counterparts. I can send it to you if you want.
Lastly, have you contacted UE 150 or Black Workers for Justice?
Anyway, I'll PM you.
We are starting this thread in hopes that people from all over the world will give us some ideas in how to begin organizing workers without having to start a formal union to better stand up against work and managers. Here in North Carolina, USA we are living under the "right to work state" laws which allows bosses and companies to fire any employee for no good reason what so ever. Everytime a wage worker gets a job that person has to sign on her application that she/he understands that we could get fired whenever, as seen fit for the company. Currently we are talking about organizing workers who are having severe problems at work or have already gotten fired to organize them as a back up support system that can engage the managers of someones former or current employment and maybe through a little action shit can get better.
We understand that this tactic will be extremely limited but so too are our options in the South. We are also interested in info concerning organizing temporary labor. The Swedish "osynliga partiet" campaigns of 2006 seems pretty impressive but we wonder if we can get some real results from such ideas and campaigns here in the South. Hope to hear from you all really soon!
in solidarity,
GRAF.
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