Friend of friend: vote for Obama 3rd term liberal quickly turning towards "I hate homeless people and anything that helps people get a home conservative." After being with a partner in finance for a bit. This is why I can't stand libs because at any given moment they have no problem going fash.
So many good resources and advice in here. You will find what I say through any of these resources, but one I want to highlight is organize yourselves and then get a union involved.
Unionizing with an organization can often give you a false sense of security that they will protect you if you or any of your coworkers get fired. They most likely won't. They don't have the money or resources necessary for a lengthy court battle for non dues paying members. And organizing yourselves gives you power during negotiations so the org doesn't have as much power over the workers bc you did it for yourself.
Get to know your coworkers and get them to trust you. Talk to people you haven't talked with much. Organizing is won in personal relationships. It's not won in emails, flyers, etc. also get to know their issue and how it affects them personally. Questions like "What's that like for you?" "How does that affect you and your family?"
Another quality question: "Do you think the boss should make 100% of the decisions about our wages, benefits, and working conditions or do you think we should be apart of that decision making process?"
Most workers will say things like I will sign a card when the time comes or I don't really care about this job. These discussions are a lot easier when you have a personal relationship.
Super key is inoculation, tell your coworkers what management is going to do because there's nothing worse than you start getting close to winning then management gets wind of it and starts doing all the things and everyone flips because they weren't aware it would be happening. 3 top phrases from bosses. You're not allowed to talk about that at work... you are, they're lying. It will be so expensive... people mostly want a union for more money no one is going to agree to lose money... A union is a third party going to cause disruption... a union is you and your coworkers. They will also offer raises and coffees and all sorts of perks. Once the threat of the union is gone so is all of that.
Organizing convos:
Talk about things they like about working there
Things they want to change.
Point to how both things they like and things they want to change are solely in managements control.
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).
Ask them if they support forming a union. (Clearly and directly)
Inoculation as i mentioned earlier.
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.
Action. Who can you talk to? What list can you get? Who can you start building relationships with?
At some point create a group chat so people can get updates and information about what's happening and it's relayed quickly.
I heard Vijay Prashad talking about leftists have to be more likable and do less of the infighting shit because it's unappealing to outsiders and I'm just not sure I agree that's the problem. It's usually the easiest thing to point to as if we just were more approachable more people would want to join a communist organization.
I think it comes down to power and material impact. Arguing and disagreeing over small shit is done by all parties and yet they still have power because they hold onto it and wield it with ease.
One thing he did say that struck a nerve is he was talking about China being a serious country. The imperial core is not serious, but that doesn't mean our effort to organize and build solidarity within the working class shouldn't be taken seriously. The Black Panthers are great example of this. They were serious about what they were doing and that is why when they built power and people trusted them.
This is also more of a self reflection in what I could work on as I'm organizing.
Idk I feel technology will be the one thing to persist. Countries may be submerged, hospitals, food, clean water etc may all become fucked, but somewhere in the world technology will develop and persist.
Nuclear winter is the only thing threatening technology and even then it probably just stops for a while and once the ruling class gets out of their silos the same shit continues.
Can we stop talking about Duolingo? I know why all these online writers talk about, it because tech employees thought they found one of those cushy jobs for life and now the rug is being pulled out and it's example A. However, automation taking over jobs at ports is a much more large scale issue and is an example of how automation will infiltrate every sector not only programmers.
I do think LLMs are going to start getting worse once more data is fed into them. And then instead of admitting this. These companies will have so much capital they will just tune the AI to say exactly what they want it to every time. We already see some of this but it will get worse.
Trotsky is the worst even more so for the legacy he left behind. Empowering these fucking nerds to create orgs that gotcha AES countries and fall in line with the imperialist core talking points all the while claiming the banner of Socialists.
Friend of friend: vote for Obama 3rd term liberal quickly turning towards "I hate homeless people and anything that helps people get a home conservative." After being with a partner in finance for a bit. This is why I can't stand libs because at any given moment they have no problem going fash.