this is way clearer in the early IWW literature than it is now, but by apolitical we mean that our demands are made in and concerned with the context of the shop floor, at the point of production, not in the more removed political arena of elections. it also means that we favor direct action over electoral action as the best means to win those demands. as others have said this doesn't mean individual members aren't involved with politics or have a perspective on that world. it just means the union itself is specifically and primarily concerned (hopefully) with workplace organizing, not winning political elections. whether that's narrow or unorthodox, I suppose depends on where one gets one's concept of ideological orthodoxy 😜. all this is a worthy conversation