By reaching out to the community, organizing campaigns are pushed to address broader social issues than they would if they were contained within the workplace. The organizing campaign should be seen by the community as a struggle for democratic rights to organize, to live without fear, to health care, etc. Organizing is a struggle for democracy in the workplace. As Marx comments in Capital, the facade of equality ends when the threshold of the workplace is crossed. The organizing campaign is both a revolution and a reform.
Workers learn the value of solidarity.
They can no longer be fired on whim and they can demand a share of surplus value. Organizing is also a fight for democratic reform. It brings the Bill of Rights and due process into the workplace. Workers win the right to free speech, freedom of the press, the right against self-incrimination and other constitutional guarantees that unorganized workers are deprived of for nearly half of their waking lives. Organizing brings enthusiastic new members into unions that are often not equipped to deal with them in a democratic manner.