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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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IMO, this is why the IWW has victories at notoriously un-organizable shops like Starbucks, Target, Whole Foods, and Fast Food. It's the approach of showing what a union is before making it legally official, and prioritizing direct action over a legal contract.
SEIU took a lot of notes from the Burgerville campaign (and in fact, some of the IWW external organizers were also SEIU staff) when they started their Starbucks drive, and it's one of the most successful drives into fast food in recent history.
I would really love to see what would happen if an org like the Portland IWW had the dues base and ambition of a union like SEIU. Unfortunately, we're pathologically afraid of closed shops and staff organizers so that will never happen.
Yeah Portland IWW is very cool. I'm a bit skeptical towards SEIU since they really half-assed it until just the last few months. I know for a fact that they didn't train many of their few staff organizers for SBWU, for example. Those organizers were really flailing. In many ways SB workers succeeded despite SEIU's contribution and more due to groups like IWW and other left labor groups - plus SB workers being very cool themselves. I've also seen a few groups that were essential to organizing SB shops in different cities suddenly left out of the loop since SEIU decided it actually wanted to take a hands-on approach as well. Part of that's on those groups as well but it's still questionable.
SBWU is basically perfect for radicalization and militant labor. It could actually do even more than the great job it's already doing if lefty labor groups were a bit more coherent and on top of things.