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Has there been an effort to try and make an /r/antiwork union?

Why ask for permission from your employer to join a group? Why do you need their permission? If workers join a union and support each other, it might make it much more difficult for companies to act shitty. There are 1,8M people on this subreddit, so that would be a big union (yeah yeah, not everybody's in the US, but start somewhere). In my mind it would be akin to creating a political party: create a legal entity agree upon the rules for processes e.g how votes are held and counted, who may candidate, which positions there are (treasurer, leading comittee, …) how to join + associated costs, behavioral codex, manifesto/what you stand for, private membership?, etc. decide where to communicate, how to reach people, make the union prominent on this subreddit and advertise it on social media, … It would allow you to do things like: advertise for companies…


Why ask for permission from your employer to join a group? Why do you need their permission? If workers join a union and support each other, it might make it much more difficult for companies to act shitty.

There are 1,8M people on this subreddit, so that would be a big union (yeah yeah, not everybody's in the US, but start somewhere).

In my mind it would be akin to creating a political party:

  • create a legal entity
  • agree upon the rules for processes e.g how votes are held and counted, who may candidate, which positions there are (treasurer, leading comittee, …) how to join + associated costs, behavioral codex, manifesto/what you stand for, private membership?, etc.
  • decide where to communicate, how to reach people, make the union prominent on this subreddit and advertise it on social media, …

It would allow you to do things like:

  • advertise for companies that the union considers “good”
  • exert pressure during elections
  • work together with other orgs in a concerted and organized manner
  • back representatives or even put up representatives for vote in political office

Just a thought

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