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The SF/IWW training which you reference specifically states the fact that it assumes it's dealing with an under-35 workforce with no previous organising experiencing.
What are you saying here, that the training is for organisers under 35, or organisers under 35 who work in places exclusively staffed by people under 35?
To be honest Caiman, I'm surprised you're even asking this.
You've been to the training. It specifically starts out by saying that the training was developed primarily in the service and retail industry with workers who (a) didn't have a union and (b) had no previous organising experience.
This means--you guessed it--that it assumes workers are going to be under a certain age. Although fairly arbitrary, we say 35 because the level of class struggle and organisation actively experienced by workers under that age is much lower than someone who was in the workforce in the 70s and even the 80s.
It then goes on to say that the training provides one model. Some of it may not be applicable to your workplace and, in any case, the training is designed mostly to get you thinking strategically about organising, not be some definitive template for how an organiser must function.
Then, there's the whole section on workplace dynamics--specifically looking at the role of existing 'social leaders' and acknowledging the fact that most social leaders are those who've been at the job the longest, are the oldest, and have the most experience. There's then a whole discussion on how this could affect your organising strategy.
If you think there's some massive flaw in all this, I'd suggest you bring it up internally and offer a change.