Gender critical Union

[BeyondWitchbitchterf]

Bringing this across from a thread where I had the thought for discussion.

I don't know much about forming a union so this could well be impossible... But with people being disciplined within their jobs for GC views (and I don't just necessarily mean RadFems but anyone - eg the teacher in the news this week), is there a gap here for forming a union to represent people who are discriminated against for GC views, or for helping represent people who want to raise issues? It'd also apply to students, I guess, not just employees.

I'm thinking it would be single issue, so other union membership could still run alongside it. Can you have a union that is single issue?

Is this perhaps more plausible than creating a political party - which I know has been mentioned a few times? As people would only need to agree on this one issue rather than finding common ground across all sorts of political views.

So, what are your thoughts, oh wise mn women...?

It would be OK as a collection of people able to support each other with individual cases (like accompanying someone to a disciplinary meeting, giving advice about legislation and writing an appeal, submitting a grievance, etc.) but you’d never be recognised by the employer so you’d not be able to negotiate on GC issues that apply to the workforce more generally (e.g. like discussing how data is gathered for equal pay audits - are TIMs included as women?)

I don’t think it would work as a union, exactly, but I think it’s a great idea to form some sort of society of GC men and women to support each other with workplace issues.

I hope that makes sense!