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The Wobblies are such a joke that there was talk about taking them over around 20 years ago by just getting enough people with your similar mindset to join. Li
by UncleEntity 3y ago
The Wobblies are such a joke that there was talk about taking them over around 20 years ago by just getting enough people with your similar mindset to join.
Like the 4chan raiders before the 4chan raiders.
I forget the amount of people it would have taken but it was laughably low.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe IWW is much less marginal today than it was 20 years ago. It’s still quite small as umbrella unions go, though.
- int_19h 3y agoSpeaking as a member, in terms of actual unionized workplaces affiliated with it, it's still extremely marginal. In terms of membership in general, it has grown considerably in the past few years, but most of the new members are those who were (further) radicalized by the contemporary US politics and seeking like-minded folk in general, not specifically to organize. Thing is, people who try to organize generally expect some immediate gains out of it, which generally favors large established unions who "play by the rules". IWW is a strongly ideological union and has things like an explicit ban on no-strike clauses in its constitution, which makes it much harder to write a collective bargaining agreement for a workshop that employers are willing to accept. Burgerville Workers Union is a recent example of an IWW success story that broke down over this issue.