Labor unions today: "we'll help you organize and take the legal steps to get fair treatment."
Labor unions in 1912: "take this rifle. If your boss doesn't comply with our demands, shoot him and blow up his mansion."
One of these two approaches gets immediate results.
How do you expand the organization beyond the people who wear thrifted denim jackets and read Luxemburg under the shade of a tree after riding their penny farthing to gather mushrooms for supper?
I mean that’s the question isn’t it? How do we show workers that it’s in their best collective interest to organize together?
Besides the IWW, do you have any recommendations for other unions like it? I’m more midwestish if that matters.