US people, workers are striking over generally shitty working conditions but Covid bullshit in particular.
Remember that if you cross a picket line you’re a fucking scab
Solidarity to all workers at this particularly trying time.
Good luck comrades.
Where’s the debate?
Yes, glad you’re on board.
Perhaps one of the more underwhelming strikes ever. How many people are actually involved? There is little coverage and it appears things are operating pretty normally overall.
Also how do you cross the picket line in an online world?
Also scabs refers to the replacement workers not customers.
OK, reading into the article more, it appears things don’t really get started until lunchtime.
This is a terribly constructed Op. Please try to provide some details and a debate next time.
I guess this is a wait and see situation. Does the strike materialize? Can the country afford a strike right now with social distancing? Are these giant Corporations doing everything they should to keep workers safe? It sounds like Amazon at least could be doing more from what I’ve read.
Oh, cram it. You do not know why a person would cross a picket line and, got news for you, it’s none of your fucking business why they do that.
Because you’re fucking trash?
Yes, because everything in the world is clearly black and white with absolutely zero shades of grey in between. :dubious:
That is no way to speak about someone’s significant other. Apologize immediately.
Also, that’s not what a scab is.
A scab isn’t a person that shops at a place with workers on strike, it’s a person that takes a temp job at a place with workers on strike.
Hey now, some people enjoy fucking trash, kink shame much?
And the anti-union folks sit back and chuckle while the union supporters do their job for them.
Exactly. Thank you
Speaking of strikes, here’s a goodie. Possibly the largest rent strike in decades:
My first thought, though, is that a lot of people will be striking at a time when there’s a massive shortage of people who can actually pay the rent, and at a time when many landlords are actually granting forbearance. So I’m still not sure how to take this , except that it’s an obvious sign that there’s growing unrest bubbling beneath the surface.
This also comes at a time when there’s a rapid increase in food insecurity.
AFAIK, I’ve had zero interaction with you on this board. Ah, for the good ol’ days. You can join the OP in cramming it.
I’m missing the joke here. Who are the significant others?
The person who takes that job, of course, has their own reasons for taking the job. The workers have a right to go on strike, but not to prevent others, even new hires, from working. Do I think that’s a cool thing for the company to do? No. The cool thing to do would be to negotitate reasonably with the union and come to a reasonable agreement.
I am not anti-union. I’m also against forcing people to do something, be it going on a strike or working in a dangerous place, among other things.
Right. The world does not always require, or even provide, binary choices.
Okay, that cracked me up.
Thanks asahi, we need the support of everyone. Even if you can pay your rent or have a decent job right now, I know there is a lot of empathetic folk here ready to do what they can for the underclass the US throws to the wolves of the market.
Neither am I, but I can still appreciate the irony in infantile foot-shooting.
It’s just words but don’t be a scab, don’t shop somewhere where there is union action, show some solidarity so we all have better lives.
I guess I need to find something I want to buy on Amazon today . . .
Lots of labor stuff happening today. A year ago today, I was on the streets in Raleigh, marching for public education. Today, the marchers in Raleigh are mostly white supremacist Trump cultists really leaning into the “death cult” stereotype.
But there’s a lot of labor stuff happening today.
-Strike against Amazon, Target, and Walmart. And Trader Joes, who are engaged in some union-busting of their own. Our freezer is going to be sadly empty of delicious Trader Joes gyoza and Saag Paneer going forward.
-Our local hospital was recently bought out by a huge corporation, and they’ve been changing things much for the worse. The nurses are trying to unionize, and the hospital has been holding mandatory anti-union meetings, even while coronavirus amps up. It’s repellent. I’m working to organize some mass action today among local educators in support of the nurses. (Mass action these days looks like “swamp social media and email lots of people,” admittedly not as effective as some other options. We do what we can in these times.)
-The rent strike? Eesh.
I’ve got really mixed feelings on the rent strike. I mean, on the one hand, of course people shouldn’t be evicted now, that’s monstrous, and the obvious approach is for folks to receive some serious grace on rent payments, whether that means landlords are SOL or means the government steps in to pay some rents, I’m not especially concerned. Maybe it means landlords have a place they can apply for hardship pay, if they can show that lack of rent bankrupts them.
But I’m not at all convinced that people who CAN pay their rents/mortgages do any good by joining in. I understand the theory, but practically, whose mind is it going to change? It seems like a really ill-considered action that’s likely to alienate many more people than it persuades, the kind of action that feels good to call for but doesn’t move the world in the right direction.
I could be persuaded otherwise, but only by clear facts, not by theory that doesn’t admit for sincere people who disagree with leftist perspectives.
Again, this isn’t coming from someone who’s a friend to the landlord class. There’s a helluva lot of labor action I’m in support of. Just this one particular action seems like a bad idea.
It’s a along the lines of ‘fun with street signs’ by changing context, emphasis and inflection:
- Slow Children at Play
- No U turn
- Turn Left Here