Sarah Jaffe

So you can say to them, like, hey, man, I had a really rough day this Tuesday.

And like, this happened with this kid.

And I don't know what to do.

Can you help me out?

Like, those structures, too, are part of what the union does, right?

MARK BLYTH, JR.

So the first thing I always say is like, yeah, talk to people.

What do your coworkers think?

How is everybody feeling about the job?

Is it just you?

It's probably not just you.

Also, don't use your workplace email to do that.

That's my number one bit of service journalism is if you're talking about organizing, don't do it on your work email or the work Slack.

Find out, get people's phone numbers, use Signal, use a protected app, something else.

That's my number one bit of service journalism.

If you're doing your organizing, don't do it where the boss can read it.

But those conversations, they are the building blocks of everything that comes next, right?

If you are thinking about organizing, you can also reach out to an organization, a union in your field, depending on what that is, the rules are.

For instance, you don't officially have to, if you are in the U.S., be a member of a union in order to have your collective rights on the job protected.

So you have the right under U.S.