I personally hold the standard that you can call yourself a trade unionist if you're a worker under a union and participate in the union beyond voting for leadership every election, or are working to install a union in your workplace.
Otherwise you're either a union supporter - to which I say there's nothing wrong with being one, fellow travelers are always welcome allies. Or a fucking larper who does more damage to the movement through their performative act as a caricature of everything wrong with the movement.
I call myself an anarchist because I do cool anarchist stuff. Also I got fired in a union busting purge against my organizing committee, I tend to agree that the factionalism present among left politics in the west and especially online is extremely stupid.
I personally hold the standard that you can call yourself a trade unionist if you're a worker under a union and participate in the union beyond voting for leadership every election, or are working to install a union in your workplace.
Otherwise you're either a union supporter - to which I say there's nothing wrong with being one, fellow travelers are always welcome allies. Or a fucking larper who does more damage to the movement through their performative act as a caricature of everything wrong with the movement.
I call myself an anarchist because I do cool anarchist stuff. Also I got fired in a union busting purge against my organizing committee, I tend to agree that the factionalism present among left politics in the west and especially online is extremely stupid.