Bring politics to work.

These days on LinkedIn you can see a lot of CEOs (or better, their ghostwriters) posting about how they handled the removal of politics from the workplace. At the same time they either rejoice for the election of Trump, or whine about some civil right they are afraid of losing.

The removal of politics from the workplace is one of the many issues that is contributing to the rise of the anti-worker far-right throughout the West. Employers not being afraid of workers' power makes them bold in their demands to the political class, which in turn caters to who currently holds more power in society: corporations, entrepreneurs, and business interest groups.

You're not in a union? Your employer is. Don't you pressure your local or national politician to implement policies you like? Your employer will. You are not having a conflict around working conditions, what the company should be doing, or how your work should look like? Then your employer is playing that game alone and winning every single time because you're not showing up.

When you hear “politics doesn't belong in the workplace”, you're being scammed. Most workplaces are dictatorships where you cannot exert your power over the thing that matters. Have you ever voted on raising your salary? Have you ever voted on reducing work hours? Have you ever voted on who should be your manager? Guess why. Politics does belong to the workplace, they just don't want you to know.

If every workplace looks like a dictatorship, your country will eventually look like a dictatorship.

Bring politics to work.