It's certainly vastly different than, like, creating a Sierra Club or Save the Whales club, because people have so much more fear about trying to address the economic issues they face on the job because of the power that employers have over them. CWA realizes that this is a growing thing in the labor movement. For the institution of labor to be relevant, it needs to organize workers in the New Economy. It was the same challenge they faced at the turn of the century. At first they wanted to reject organizing at the auto plants.
Some workers are more interested than others.
They are absolutely vital. Clearly, especially contract workers and customer service, their issues are very similar. What's unifying these workers is the idea that they're all in the same boat when it comes to basic issues that are being created because the industry they work in is doing things vastly different in terms of the revolution of the workplace. And they have no voice at the table of how this industry really works and what its effects are and that the fundamental question that people are afraid to ask that we're raising in this industry is the fairness issue. You compare this movement with that of the auto industry in the 1930s, when poison fumes induced seizures, extreme heat caused fainting, and metal presses literally crushed workers.