Winning a Sit-in

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Editor’s Note: Whether at Canadian auto plants or California universities, taking the place over is an increasingly popular way to fight the dramatic sacrifices demanded in this recession. Although a student sit-in is different from a workplace takeover, there is much to learn from the painstaking planning that went into the Harvard Living Wage Campaign’s successful building occupation in 2001. Here former Harvard student Amy Offner lays out the how-to's in detail. Many of the lessons would apply in a workplace sit-in: the creation of an inside team and an outside team, the need for contingency plans, relentless media work, ways to bring supporters to the building to provide a presence outside, how to negotiate an end to the sit-in.
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This article is a "how-to guide"
http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2010/01/winning-sit

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[tavalon]

1. That site has now been bookmarked

Thank you for a great site! I wonder if they have any information about getting a better union. We have such a weak union, I feel like unionizing against them!