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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 21:44:46 EDT Adam

   @Angle I think that's what the IWW is supposed to be, although I'm not sure how much of that they actually do.

   1. Saltiest Cloister (saltiestcloister@quitter.im)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 22:09:13 EDT Saltiest Cloister

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      @inkslinger @angle That's a great idea! I think @inkslinger is right, though, that the Wobblies are supposed to be. They did organize harm-reduction workers in Windsor ON, last I heard, which is pretty awesome. It may be good to have all workers at a given work-place, regardless of job or employment level, organize into one union, as One Big Union was a tactic that IWW was definitely attempting. It'd be good to see education workers assembled into one union and not divided into age categories of 'elementary' and 'secondary' and 'post-secondary' &c.
      1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 23:27:51 EDT Adam

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         @jechoshrews @Angle There was also a union in Canada literally calles the One Big Union at one time. Sadly, they are no more.

         1. Saltiest Cloister (saltiestcloister@quitter.im)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 23:31:45 EDT Saltiest Cloister

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            @inkslinger @angle Well, that's crummy. The question then, for unionized workers at least, is whether one reforms from the inside of the union or builds rank-and-file alternatives in every work-site outside of the given limitations.
            1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 17-Aug-2018 10:47:04 EDT Adam

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               @jechoshrews @Angle I wish the IWW actually was the officially union of way more workers than it actually is. As a symbol, it's powerful. As an actual union, it's much less so.

               1. Saltiest Cloister (saltiestcloister@quitter.im)'s status on Friday, 17-Aug-2018 13:43:16 EDT Saltiest Cloister

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                  @inkslinger @angle Yeah, I share your wish on that one. One could always hold membership in both unions, though, and push wherever you can for your more conservative union to be more militant.