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The Freedom Foundation is claiming victory because the billionaires who's boots they lick have funded an administration bent on union busting. For Public Employee unions, it makes negotiations harder when people, that you still by law have to represent, are no longer required to pay for that representation. This will eventually lead to both the "free riders" and the dues paying members having no representation at all, putting them all at the mercy of the employers. Exactly where FF wants them.

Dear readers,

Many of you are for the first time in your life embarking on a strike. Many of you have joined a trade union for the first time. Here is some general advice that you might find useful on being a more active trade union member. Majority of this applies to all trade unionists no matter where they are working.

1. Make time to attend the AGM of your branch/structure and vote. Active participation is crucial to ensuring the union reflects your views in their activities.
2. To take it slightly above 1, attend your unions Biannual Delegate Conference as a delegate and participate in the proceedings. Pay close attention to the financial report, ask questions and talk to other delegates. The members are the union.
3. Go to meetings with people who need support. It's daunting going to a meeting alone - offer to attend investigations/grievances/disciplinaries. (It's on company time anyway!)
4. Do your bit in sticking up stickers, handing out flyers to coworkers and talking to people if something is coming up.
5. Challenge your union officials if they're wrong. Yes, officials get it wrong or make mistakes. Don't just rage quit because it's not the way you want it to be, challenge your official. If your official is obstructive then every union has a process where you can lodge a grievance against an official.
6. Keep up to date on what's going on. You don't need to care about everything the union is doing, but keeping on top of the newsletters/information is useful and helpful for yourself and your co-workers.
7. Record / take note / document issues that take place in the job (even if they're for other people). a short email to yourself or a note in your app is good. You never know what will come up. Vigilance for potential breaches of employment law and breaches is key.

Hey Folks - I am looking for materials (books, podcasts, journals, papers, etc) for a labour education research project I'm doing about building and maintaining trust between a Union and it's members.

Does anyone have recommendations on sources or where to look?

My searches are yielding results about employer/employee trust or membership engagement. I can see how these subjects tie in, but wondering if there's anything out there I'm missing that's more specific to my topic.

I'm specifically curious about;

- Building trust members whose upbringing (politically, culturally) may have instilled mistrust or poor reception of Unions

- Building trust with members who blame the Union when the employer finds "workarounds" to items in the collective agreement

- Building trust and momentum with members for a Strike vote following a previous strike

I'm in Canada but open to labour information from anywhere!

ETA: Currently active in Union involvement, President of my local and serve on regional committees. This is what drives my curiosity, not just for an assigment 😊

Émile Pouget (1860–1931) was a French anarchist, journalist, trade unionist and one of the major theorists of revolutionary syndicalism. Born in Rodez in 1860, he developed an early interest in radical politics, influenced partly by his stepfather, a republican civil servant. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he became involved in workers’ organisation and helped establish an employees’ union in 1879. His union activism contributed to his dismissal from employment.

Pouget became an anarchist during the early 1880s and participated in the developing French anarchist movement. In 1883 he was arrested following a large unemployed workers’ demonstration and was sentenced to eight years in prison, serving three years before receiving an amnesty. After his release, he increasingly devoted himself to revolutionary journalism.

In 1889 he founded Le Père Peinard, an influential anarchist newspaper written in deliberately popular Parisian working-class language. Through it, Pouget advocated workers’ organisation, the general strike and direct action. He increasingly turned toward trade unionism, arguing that workers’ unions could simultaneously defend immediate interests and prepare for broader social transformation.

By the late 1890s Pouget had become deeply involved in the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), particularly in debates over the boycott, sabotage and the general strike. In the early twentieth century he became an important syndicalist organiser and writer, helping shape revolutionary syndicalism’s emphasis on worker self-activity, direct action and independence from parliamentary politics. He died in 1931.