• Minotaur@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Dunkirk, New York. You can email them yourself to see if they have a rep here. I’ll save you some time - they don’t. What now?

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      7 months ago

      What’s your industry? Are there any contacts at your local business that could also be interested in forming a union?

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        7 months ago

        I’m a caseworker. There are only 25 employees. I have never spoken to probably 15 of them. Of the 10 I know well, maybe half would actually go through with forming a union. What now?

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          7 months ago

          Now you email the IWW with the info you just gave me and wait for their response.

          Do you take this same contentious nature to the rest of your cases?

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            7 months ago

            After their response, what do they say or do to help me form a Union?

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                7 months ago

                Oh just planning ahead. If they respond (and there’s another user in this very thread saying they never responded to his emails), how exactly will the IWW help me form a Union? What’ll be involved? How can I form a Union when I don’t even have contact info for a lot of the employees here who don’t even know me?

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                  7 months ago

                  The first step is starting that conversation with the IWW or if you’d like you can reach out to your local AFL/CIO labor board as well

                  https://wnyalf.org/dunkirk-area-labor-council-afl-cio/union-member-benefits

                  But as far as what’s going to happen next that hinges on you actually engaging with the process and sending an email.

                  I used the word navigate for a reason. If you need help during the process I’m happy to help.

                  If you just want to continue a thought experiment for the purpose of proving a point I’m not interested.

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                    7 months ago

                    Oh. So you don’t have any idea as to how they “build you a union” or even an inkling as to what that means. You can just send emails (and god bless you for that!)

                    Well, that sure is inspiring. I’ll have to pass that off to all of my clients too. Who knew they didn’t have to be poor! They could just contact the IWW, join or have some unions built for them, and that’s an easy peasy improvement on their quality of life. Makes you wonder why they haven’t all done that already! Guess they just plum never thought about it.

                    And oh boy, I’ll tell all my coworkers right away about that link you sent me! They’ll be so excited to find out that by switching to AT&T they can save up to $10/month.

                    Heck, with your knowledge maybe all of social services will start with a call to the IWW. Guess we just never thought of it either! But you know us workin’ class types, we just don’t have all that crawling out of poverty experience that you computer sciency types too.