• source :: Kickstarter United

• tags :: organizingtech organizing

Notes

• Lower-to-middle management was able to be organized as they were closer to workers than CEOs

• Union proposed a media blackout

  • Going to media is a way to use leverage

  • Don't want to shoot your shot

• Management was punitive, emotionally manipulated organizers

• Management reaction is similar to other organizing efforts

• Organizing should be joyous, otherwise organizers will burn themselves out

• Organizing should be personal

• Kickstarter organizers knew they were going to set a precedent

• Managers and business owners are able to organize on company time, unlike workers, example of how the bourgeoisie uses worker power against itself

• Managers etc. can leverage business resources as well as the state against workers