“The Industrial Workers of the World do not recognize that the bosses have any rights at all,” testified Big Bill Haywood before Congress’s Commission on Industrial Relations in 1915. “We say that no union has a right to enter into an agreement with the employers … because it is the inherent mission of the working class to overthrow capitalism and establish itself in its place.”

Big Bill Haywood Quote

<a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">At a campaign where the election was won:</a><ul><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Real issues not addressed in bargaining”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Union was more real on paper.” </a></li></ul><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">Things to do differently next time:</a><ul><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">"more direct unionism tactics." </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Experiment with more minority / direct unionism tactics.”</a></li></ul>

“Learning From Our Mistakes” Portland 2003

101: Building the Committee - "undertaking their own campaign at work and even mounting a modest direct action with coworkers to settle a grievance or win a demand."102: The Committee in Action - a systematic grievance handling process based in workplace action, as well as the nuts and bolts and strategic questions involved in maintaining a functioning shop committee

The Organizer Trainings

<a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">Things to avoid doing again:</a><ul><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">"Going to NLRB election”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">“Using the NLRB”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">“Seeking official recognition of the union”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">“Aiming to win an official collective bargaining agreement”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at">“Abandoning democracy building amongst organizing committees to focus on the immediacy of an NLRB election”.</a></li></ul>

<a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">Conclusions: are unequivocal:</a><ul><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“NLRB slowed down organizing”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Bureaucracy of NLRB slowed down process, took away momentum and required a lot of time from multiple people”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Did not have a vision of the campaign that did not include NLRB recognition”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Did not recognize that direct unionism was working well without NLRB recognition”; </a></li><li><a href="https://deepstash.com/idea/90556/101-building-the-committee-undertaking-their-own-campaign-at" target="_self">“Organizing focus shifted to NLRB election rather than remaining on worker issues and the fight for real gains”; </a></li></ul>