Is it possible? Is it desirable? I understand the wobblies used to organise the unorganisable... How?
My last job was agency (where we were affectionately known as "the bitches" by the other workers). Some of us agency workers talked about trying some kind of collective action to ensure we got contracts (we'd all been promised contracts). We were just starting to talk to agency workers about this in different parts of the factory and other work areas when all of us got sacked. (It was a double glazing factory and they hire agency for a few weeks, promising contracts and then fire everyone).
I had vague designs of an Agency Workers Union but I couldn't think of any way we could do anything without instantly getting the sack.
While I was there, interestingly all the "labourers" who were next lowest on the pecking order at the factory (Agency, labourers, lineworkers, foremen) all simultaneously left the union because it wasn't representing them - the union rep was a line worker.
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I work agency, and while it's possible to organise in this sector the biggest problem in the place I work is turnover, about half the workforce stay there for months or even years at a time, but the rest tend to do a few weeks (or even days) and then vanish. This makes organising extremely difficult, because there's always a large pool of 'flexible' labour to send in at any given time.
I've been in a situation before where somebody has called in sick and I've been phoned half an hour before the shift was meant to start to cover them. Even if there was a spontaneous wildcat strike, pickets would have to be pretty strong to keep the factory closed.