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I think salting is a cool and good thing to do, but don't be a martyr. If you need a little while off after a lot of effort that's okay. If you think you're up to it, you'd be more experienced and equipped to help than most, and it sounds like you'd be working in concert with a partner (maybe a committee?) and that's so much easier than starting fresh.
Learn more about it. You know the kind of support you need best, and it's okay to ask about it and get to know people before committing. This is a big life decision and it's okay to be careful in these kinds of matters. You don't have to commit if it doesn't feel like a fight you have a good part in, whether it's because the team doesn't feel right or you need a rest.
It's a struggle and you know that better than most - but this is what revolutionaries do. I hope you'll be back to it when you're up to it.
Unionizing is difficult in jobs that have such rapid turn over. A petition to the NLRB can take more than a year to process, at which point half your coworkers could be gone. It's also difficult to petition to include part-time worker. I don't know if those have been your problems, but they've been mine when I've organized. It's hard to organize people who believe they can simply get a better job if they quit.
This is all by design by the way. The NLRB isn't supposed to work.
I think about doing this frequently at a local grocery store but I’m discouraged by a number of factors, the most obvious one being that few of the workers there even mask. I know that as a communist I’m supposed to help guide workers but it just seems hopeless. Not a single grocery store in my state is unionized. I still might give it a try eventually.
Its def not selfish not to. Dont beat yourself up like that.
Btw, id be curious to hear some of your stories. Successes and difficulties in trying to organize a grocery store.
I don't know if you've read Jane McAlevey's "No Shortcuts," but on the off-chance you haven't I would strongly recommend it. She talks in depth about the exact thing you're talking about with identifying social leaders and using them as leverage. She calls them "organic leaders" and talks a little about identifying them and how they can be used most effectively in organizing.
Where exactly do salting partners come from? How would I even get one in a store?
Could you work part time for 5-10 hours a week with a better full time gig?
I’m not suggesting it necessarily.. Don’t feel selfish tho.
