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>		 Thank you for all your work on this, Paulina. Your suggestions are terrific and I am working on them. It’s been hard, because many of the things I should develop are the hardest things to explain. You're right that the “raw material is excellent for storytelling: it has conspiracy and intrigue and power plays and creative problem-solving” and your ideas for improving that are very good. On the other hand, I'm strugging with writing about those things briefly in a way that people who have not worked on a union campaign will understand. I don’t mean that to sound arrogant, I just mean that it’s an unusually hostile environment (my tires were slashed in Stockton, and it was one of the campaigns where a manager laid hands on me – he grabbed me by the back of my shirt collar while trying to prevent me from going on the shop floor) but at the same time workers do so much to hide their fear from organizers. One of the top reasons people fail as union organizers (the average organizer lasts two years, and that’s counting in all the warhorses who work for 20+ years) is because they are unable to recognize fear behind the rudeness, avoidance, and, ahem, fibbing that most people put on before they start to trust us. It’s hard to make it clear in just a few words that when a worker insists on giving me a soda, that means she’s avoiding supporting the union. But I’m working on it and just writing this update to you has given me some ideas. Thank you!
 

Practice Pickets: solving the problem of no-strike, no-picket clauses before contract expiration


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