> When I worked in a normal job, I was not once contacted by any union.
> Not a flyer, not an email.
>
> No union mentioned solidarity to me, or said "We don't have the
> resources to help organize you, but here's something you'll want to
> hear. You see, we give a damn about you because you're a fellow human
> being, and we're sure you've noticed the kooky reality distortion
> field in which you spend all your many working hours..."
Sorry this is an overpost. Why didn't you contact a union yourself? Why didn't you organize all of your fellow coworkers or at least those in your own office or shop and tell a union "we're a hot shop and we're ready to go union?" It's been done before, you know?