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TomClash

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7. Paid

Reply to ellenrr (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 07:00 AM

Oct 2013

Paid well, paid often, always paid.

How can you organize for better pay, benefits and the right to bargain collectively if you don't pay your organizers? Isn't that incongruous?

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I'd like your opinion about this [View all] ellenrr Oct 2013 OP

It's very strange that you are uneasy about someone getting paid to organize workers. factsarenotfair Oct 2013 #1

to add-- ellenrr Oct 2013 #2

It should be a full time job. Notafraidtoo Oct 2013 #3

Knowing all the laws makes it worth the pay rurallib Oct 2013 #10

depends on handmade34 Oct 2013 #4

It is curious that perhaps we have bought into the rightwing meme that people on the Left djean111 Oct 2013 #5

everyone has to make living. barbtries Oct 2013 #6

Paid TomClash Oct 2013 #7

Is he a union organizer, paid by a union? MADem Oct 2013 #8

Organizing to increase the numbers of Americans in unions benefits all of us. It's Squinch Oct 2013 #9

"Poverty Pimp" <-- what poor people call "do-gooders" trying to help them 99th_Monkey Oct 2013 #11

that's great what you did. I wouldn't call you a poverty pimp.. ellenrr Oct 2013 #13

Like I said, we often joked about it. 99th_Monkey Oct 2013 #14

Research the organization gopiscrap Oct 2013 #12

I support it. Where can I get one of those jobs? Vincardog Oct 2013 #15