As Clarissa began to become a more visible member of the drive, she started to receive pushback from coworkers who were less supportive of the union. This kind of policing among peers is common—both in union drives and in close-knit office cultures—according to various workplace experts with whom I spoke. “People become so passionate about the mission,” Green, the Ask a Manager columnist, told me, “that they often act as if they are personally affronted when a peer who is not part of management tries to set boundaries on their time or what their labor is worth.”
