Hey, kiddos, I know that some of you are in school and fretting over what career to go into. "I got a degree in gender studies, now what, ahhh!" Some of you are just sick of being poor.

Do you have a bachelors in a social science or two years of activist experience? Are you willing to work 100 hours a week for 45K? Is a clean conscious more valuable to you than your sanity? Work for a union! Go become an organizer in training for SEIU or AFSCE or Unite-Here or some other expansion-minded union. Meet workaholic comrades.

Being a teacher isn't the only way to get over-worked for 45K with a clean conscious, there's always union work.

Burnout is common.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've heard it goes up to like 65K once you've proven you won't burn out. Apparently, union organizers frequently organize their own unions, and the unions that employ them are known for running particularly vicious union busting campaigns.

    Went on their site and the first image I see is of a cop lol

    American unions are really like that... I've heard that most paid organizers are lefties though and most cops are already organized.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I wish they were different! AFL-CIO reformers are trying to kick out the cops, but the AFL-CIO has white-supremacist roots and the cops are well paid, so they pay good dues. It's an uphill and losing battle.

          • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The AFL predates the CIA by a long-shot, but there's no doubt involvement. Any time the feds cleaned the mob out of a union, I have no doubt that feds took their place, UMW in virginia in the 70's is a great example