

The boss wants to sit down with us troublemakers, and we figure we might as well. It’s not going to sway us from our goal, if anything, it will be another chance to slap the boss around again.
Actually I have to say that when I tried to unionize my office togheter with some collegues (we were in the very early stages of trying to figure what we needed to do), the manager requested a meeting with all of us “troublemakers” (only the ones they knew where getting involved in lamenting the low wages) and I have to say that (after a group meeting and some individual meetings) they succeeded in stopping, at least for the time, the “energy” of the movement. Some people just didn’t feel anymore like “risking” it.
So, I guess my suggestion is to be careful about who goes in what meeting, especially in the very early stages, because some people might chicken out, and then other people might see those people and feel like unionizing is going too far.
Because of this, we had to stop at getting a small wage increase for our team alone, and now, only after a year, is some of that energy, to do something about the wage and the workplace, coming back.
Me when I’m in the oven, developing that c/rust people have been talking about.