There’s trouble in paradise! this has always been the problem for union contract negotiations, the union organizers have one job and that is to grow membership by any means necessary and that includes lying.

Successful organizing campaigns are an emotional high for the union supporters, union organizers need workers to take ownership of the campaign, but many times the organizers promise everything under the sun to win the campaign, the organizers job is done after the ballots are counted and the negotiators need to try and fulfill those promises at the table.

When I taught advanced organizing strategies at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies / National Labor College, we encouraged the designated lead negotiators to engage with the workers organizing committee members prior to the election to educate them how the negotiating process works.

The truth is that unions don’t want to educate their potential members, they want organizing workers to think that all they need to do is to vote the union in and the contract process goes on autopilot, that’s why they spend tens of millions of dollars lobbing politicians to prevent management from educating workers on the realities about unions when there is union organizing activity.

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