Building a committee

well, she didn't always whine. One of her issues was that she was protective of a gay Japanese immigrant production artist who was HIV positive, afraid they might let him go. Maybe it would be more accurate to say she was vocal but inconsistent, not very hopeful about our chances. There had been a previous union organizing effort that went nowhere and I think there was a certain amount of cynicism. She was a fixture (gorgeous, too).
You all had said the person who people listens to, who has been there the longest, is vocal, is a "leader."

What I'm unclear about is what you all mean by assigning people on the committee tasks. In this particular workplace, I think the most reasonable way to put together a committee would be one person from advertising, one person from editorial, one person from the typesetters/proofreaders (that would have been me back then), and one person from the production artists/photogs. But what then?

Listen to as in who they respect and will follow into action. Not who they listen to because the person won't shut up.

okay, well i guess I was a "leader" of the production staff in that sense. I was able to get most of them to come to a meeting with a GCIU business agent, so they were willing to follow me at least that far. But i really needed to find someone else to share in that burden. And it wasn't clear to me at the time how to do that.

If you have a plan, then goals are laid out. Some of those goals are to ID other leaders, recruit them to the committee, etc. It really depends on what stage of the campaign you're in.

'Cat, how big of a workplace was this? Tasks is really simple - it's any work that needs to be done to build the campaign.