take a look at this absolutely insane, totally incredible organizing strategy from the UMW in their 1913 campaign to organize the Colorado oilfields: pic.twitter.com/5G0RaoI0bk
— lex 🎃🍂 (@postlexical) October 10, 2020
Seriously, this is some impressive labor tactics.
Using an employer’s own anti-union paranoia against them.
Today’s union organizers should take note.
I like it viscerally, but it is fundamentally unethical.
You know that the either the companies or their Pinkertons were attempting to infiltrate the unions in exactly the same way.
It would be unethical not to run a counter-intelligence op.