Helloooo posting my update for yesterday but was too tired to upload so forgive me. Had the meeting and it went really really great! It was really helpful for me to talk to someone with the experience and resources to help me get where i need to be with the skills required to help me with organizing my workplace. They gave me a really nice run down on how I should go about and we both worked on a lengthy step by step process on what my next steps will be and how each outcome may or may not determine the next moves I would have to make will be.

Shutout to @curmudgeonthefrog@hexbear.net who suggested i make a list of all my employees and to add their names to a spreadsheet estimating how pro-union they are because this is exactly what the PSL member suggested i do! I’ve nearly finished working on this list because this is what i started working on immediately after the meeting. Next steps would be to start slowly discussing unions to my colleagues so i can gauge their interest in them to see where they stand and luckily i think a lot of them are in support or will be in support once I mention unionizing to them. Also thanks to @Antiwork@hexbear.net for this useful list of questions i will surely be using!

Talk about things they like about working there

  1. Things they want to change.

  2. Point to how both things they like and things they want to change are solely in managements control.

  3. Find a union win in your job sector. Point to what workers did to win that and ask what it would mean for them to have that. (Bonus if it connects to their issues which is why you want a bunch of these in the back pocket).

  4. Ask them if they support forming a union. (Clearly and directly)

  5. Inoculation as i mentioned earlier.

  6. This is how we win… Getting list of all coworkers. Talking to them. And building support. Stop talking to people who aren’t supportive immediately about anything Union related. Get to 60-70% support. Take it to a Union. Vote.

  7. Action. Who can you talk to? What list can you get? Who can you start building relationships with?*

So PSL did discuss the list of unions we could possibly join and they even said they will reach out to those they have connections with so this is extremely helpful for me and gives me so much motivation and i’m so happy that an organization like PSL is helping me out! They also urged me to join the IWW and to attend some of their meetings so i can start networking with people familiar with labor rights and they will be more than happy to help someone starting out.

Also they handed me the United and Win EWOC book for free! So i need to read this ASAP. EWOC is filled with lots of useful resources to help with anyone interested in organizing the workplace so I cannot recommend them enough. I also would like to recommend PSL wholeheartedly because this meeting has reinvigorated my spirit and made me feel so motivated and excited whereas before i was still keen on doing this but filled with a loooot of anxiety they really helped put me on the right path.

I think if anyone wants to fulfill this goal of unionizing their workplace then I HIGHLY suggest reaching out to PSL. Just do what I did and reach out to some of their organizers through social media and see where that takes you.

Really looking forward to the next steps in this process and i will definitely keep you up to date with my progress!