You’d basically be doing workplace organizing, the early stage where it’s recommended to find one issue around which to unite. This is a way to build a list of contacts and their interest levels and to begin forming an organizing committee. If management is competent they will understand it as such and begin organizing against you.

What you do about all of this is really about your own risk tolerance and what meta goals you would find acceptable. For example, I would recommend gauging interest in casual one on one conversations before distributing a petition because I would want to create a larger, more sustainable effort that culminates in having a union and actually achieving the dropping of that supplier. Basically, build your own secret list of possible supporters before making a real petition. And maybe even organize around a different issue by asking folks if there’s any one thing they’d change about your workplace if they could (in your own voice / a way that is natural in the conversation).

If you do run in full steam ahead and make the petition, just get ready to have someone rat you out and get fired. That can also have a good meta goal of raising consciousness (that your company is more committed to Zionism than to your employment) if you inoculate people first by telling them what you’re organizing for and what it means if you get fired.

I would recommend the basic building blocks for union organizing, though, because the meta goals you can achieve if you do get fired are better and more numerous. You’d want to proceed and get these things:

• Your initial list to gauge interest.

• A small organizing committee (people that meet to plan this) that plans the petition, disseminates it, and plans further action based on it.

• The petition itself and presenting it to management.

• The subsequent actions you will need to take to push action on the petition or to respond to retaliation.

If you decide to change the exact thing you are first organizing around, these steps would still apply. If you do the above things, then regardless of whether you succeed you will now have the members of the organizing committee to continue working with. Even if some or all of you get fired, you can turn this into a radicalizing moment and get them into doing other kinds of organizing or socialist parties. In addition, building that committee and actions is more powerful than one person doing a petition so it is more likely you will succeed.

I do strongly recommend that you organize towards a union. Organizing to drop that supplier won’t be legally protected because it’s not about working conditions, as a heads up. And unless your workforce is already very anti-Zionist it’s probably not the easiest issue to use as your first step. I think it would probably be more sustainable to build around a workplace conditions issue simultaneously.

You should also prepare, with your organizing committee, to put out educational sessions and materials as to why it’s bad to have a Zionist supplier. There’s a decent chance you’re going to get some Zionist or liberal that’s going to act like a rat and fuck with you so you’ll want to be ready for that. The last thing you want is for your coworkers to sympathize with them rather than you. Propaganda and innoculation are very important.

Anyways good on you, it’s a good idea to do something like this and with a bit of strategy you’ll do well.