A form of organizing that dominated before unions had institutional recognition through the NLRB, solidarity unionism means the demands of workers are enforced only through the actions workers can take in response to management, rather than NLRB sanctions. Workers confirm that they received packets about the Affordable Care Act, but maintain that they were instructed to check the refusal of healthcare box. (GCI regional director Elise Stuewe tells Read more about This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Cohen: Bernie Sanders has found his lost cause – and it's himSen. Workers say that about a third of the fluctuating workforce in their Portland location is older than 25, and many canvassers rely on the job as their sole source of household income. Grassroots Campaigns Inc. canvassers rally in front of the local office declaring the formation of their union and announcing their demands. The quotas are demanding, making the work one of the most difficult low-wage jobs to hold on to. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. On Tuesday, he lost Florida by 39 points, Illinois by 36 points and Arizona by 12 points.Isn’t it enough for Sanders to know that there may be no more primaries at all? Canvassers working for Grassroots Campaigns Inc. (GCI), a third-party contractor that does street canvassing and fundraising for progressive nonprofit organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center, informed management of their unionization drive two weeks ago. Conditions were just as described.Thank you for writing this. The canvassers have said they will continue escalating actions until management negotiates with them as a bargaining unit. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Management told the workers that GCI’s regional director would be meeting with the workers on August 6 to begin negotiations, but have since refused to recognize the union without an NLRB election. Send him into splendid isolation, forced and forever. Thank you again.Working In These Times brings you weekly coverage of the labor movement and the struggle of workers everywhere to organize for a better world. He is history’s crankiest footnote.Sanders knows his campaign is done, on one level, but he cannot admit his reality: He is now irrelevant.Cohen: Bernie Sanders has found his lost cause – and it's him His work has appeared in Jacobin, Alternet, Political Research Associates, Waging Nonviolence, Labor Notes, ThinkProgress, ROAR Magazine and Upping the Anti. I worked the same type of gig over a decade ago in NYC for a third-party contractor called the "The Fund for Public Interest Research", and everything you put forth here is pretty much identical to the working conditions there. “[GCI] needs to be held accountable … because when I complained to them, they didn’t do anything,” she says.
Bernie is building a movement that will be able to take power back. So, despite invitations from voters to go, Sanders so far refuses. After GCI workers informed management of their organizing campaign, they asked to sit down and negotiate terms. It is your identity.You have found your lost cause. He will not join the chorus urging him to get out. The strategy has been methodical. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. This moment is the culmination of four years of historic progress for socialists, including the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress and dozens of socialists to state and local offices, and the mainstreaming of radical demands, from Medicare for All to abolishing ICE. Last week, the United Campaign Workers union, an affiliate of the Portland Industrial Workers of the World, announced its second organized workplace in its less than two months of existence.