I don’t give a shit if your rep is “nice” or “has helped in the past”. When they stop representing the interests of your oppressors, then feel free to have a beer with them or whatever.
You don’t volunteer ammunition and intel to the enemy. In many companies HR is hired not by the company, but by the company’s holding company. If you wouldn’t tell something to your CEO, you definitely shouldn’t tell it to your CEO’s boss.
Learn your rights. HR will only be your friend as long as you’re not tugging on your leash. If you’ve been thinking about organizing your workplace, here’s your sign.
Step 1 is finding a union rep and reaching out to them for organizer 101 training. Read the stuff pinned in !labour. If you don’t know how to pick a union, ask in the megathread from an alt or just default to the IWW (all workers are welcome). It’s time. If you can spare the 30 minutes to google a union and send an email, do it now before you forget and fall back into inaction.
Sometimes telling people to organize has a real “there’s always money in the banana stand” feel. It’s a lot simpler than it’s made out to be (though not easier) and people here are generally sitting on way more resources than they realize.
Cops are pigs and HR are snakes. Simple as.
I don’t give a shit if your rep is “nice” or “has helped in the past”. When they stop representing the interests of your oppressors, then feel free to have a beer with them or whatever.
You don’t volunteer ammunition and intel to the enemy. In many companies HR is hired not by the company, but by the company’s holding company. If you wouldn’t tell something to your CEO, you definitely shouldn’t tell it to your CEO’s boss.
Learn your rights. HR will only be your friend as long as you’re not tugging on your leash. If you’ve been thinking about organizing your workplace, here’s your sign.
Step 1 is finding a union rep and reaching out to them for organizer 101 training. Read the stuff pinned in !labour. If you don’t know how to pick a union, ask in the megathread from an alt or just default to the IWW (all workers are welcome). It’s time. If you can spare the 30 minutes to google a union and send an email, do it now before you forget and fall back into inaction.
The kind of posts we need on here
Sometimes telling people to organize has a real “there’s always money in the banana stand” feel. It’s a lot simpler than it’s made out to be (though not easier) and people here are generally sitting on way more resources than they realize.