![]() ![]() ![]() “Most of these workers are moving from one shitty job to another anyway, so they figure that they might as well organize to make them better while they are there.” “People getting fired during a union organizing campaign isn’t having the same impact it had in the past,” Hanson says. After the strike and before the election, four Union Kitchen activists were fired, Hanson says - a scorched earth union-busting tactic that is usually the death knell for a certification vote - but workers voted overwhelmingly for their union anyway. I haven’t had four successful worker-generated organizing campaigns in my entire career and we just had four in four months.”Īt one of those shops, Union Kitchen, a D.C.-based grocery store, workers went on a three-day strike before their union was even certified, a level of militancy that seemed all but extinct but has now begun reappearing in nascent organizing campaigns. “The checklist that staff organizers have - get a list, identify leaders, make sure the organizing committee is diverse and represents all departments and classifications - these workers are coming to us and they have already done all of that. “And they’re coming to us in a way I’ve never seen. “Workers are reaching out to our union in unprecedented numbers,” says Alan Hanson, organizing director for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 in the Washington, D.C., area. ![]()
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