“YES IF YOU ARE IN A CRITICAL INDUSTRY YOU HAVE LESS OF A RIGHT TO STRIKE”
Entire thread on r/news is just the same sentiment of libs worried about their treats while the rest of America is already stuck in poverty and the world suffers already from American economic dominance.
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Wow; I knew the crackers would hit this point because its their treats on the line; but I didn’t think it’d happen that fast. It still took like three days for the lib recalcitrance to jump out when the rail workers did it; this feels like it was overnight.
oh no, it will crash the global economy
it’s called leverage, motherfucker. The ilwu shut down the west coast back around 9-11, life went on.I saw some randos online saying that if an industry is too important for a strike it should be nationalized, so that was heartening.
Biden’s vanguard made from the Bidentariat of the longshoremen.
In all serious, yeah; some of them really are like “why are we against this”. Libs that have a shred of class consciousness. Let’s hope they grow.
Thomas Frank is the goat in this. If there’s any liberals you worry about them getting scratched, What’s The Matter With Kansas or Listen Liberal are both borderline gateway theory.
Never read any introductory gateway stuff for liberals. “Listen Liberal” is funny to me though, I’ll check it out!
I think a lot of people don’t get that a protest or strike is a demonstration of power in a negotiation. This is probably why liberals love the completely ineffectual go stand around in a park on a saturday afternoon permits in hand style of protest.
Libs love nothing more than a chance to be strikebreakers
Comparing dockworkers to doctors striking for 600k a year is so asinine.
In a matter of perspective, if the longshoremen strike and hospitals with the 600k a year doctors can’t perform surgeries without supplies; why aren’t the longshoremen getting a living wage and security guarantees?
I was a teenager arguing on 4chan and I came to this conclusion one time many many years ago. We were talking about how only a super special guy could find the cure for cancer and I was all “then why shouldn’t the entire team of researchers get a bunch of money? If the cancer doctor got billions and billions, why wouldn’t the suppliers charge them a shitload?”
It was a real proto-philosophy that led to my idea that we make a society focused on the betterment of people instead of enshittifying the finite Earth for the sake of the rate of profit.
I clicked on some of the main subreddits and the libs are insanely mad because “this might cause Kamala to lose the election”. Of course, when people respond with “would you support this strike if it was happening after the election” and they libs still said no anyway lol.
Can’t wait for the most pro-labor administration to break this strike as well for the sake of the global economy
Mandatory public service should include every service industry job so these goobers stop talking like this and get some f****** perspective
In my experience, selfish assholes who work service jobs just use it as an excuse to shit on service workers harder because, “I’ve worked this job and it’s not that hard”.
Or “Ya it was tough but I paid my dues and now I have a ‘real’ job.” Which is also terrible.
Surely, the porkies can’t pull off making the workers look like the bad guys for wanting more money in this economy
Reality:
Imagine if your doctors earning 300k a year decide to strike to demand 600k a year and people are dying left and right as a result
close, they only do that if healthcare is threatened to be socialized
“but them going on strike will cause problems,” well, looks like the company should give in quickly.
If going on strike didn’t cause problems it would just be taking unpaid leave
“Noooo you can’t go on strike if it might affect
and the flow of my treats made by exploited third world labor!”Also notice that it’s not, critical workers are being underpaid and exploited to the point of striking, so let’s blame the owners for the impact to the economy.
That being said, I don’t like the framing of writers and actors being privileged. Those are unions where they have a very small handful of ultra-rich megastars, but the vast majority of them are struggling just to make a living off their craft.
I agree! They immediately think of actors, or directors, etc. Instead they fail to think of set designers, make-up artists, FX people, etc. There is something there to a liberal looking at the industry and seeing the richest as a general guide for how everyone else must be doing (maybe not as rich, etc)
On top of that, they also don’t even question why bank managers, financial analysts and other useless fucking jobs make over 400k? But longshoremen wanting job security and pay increases are bad? Instead they mask it with “NOOOOO DON’T HINDER PROGRESS TO MAKE US ALL CONTRACTED WAGE-SERFS!!”
Absolutely garbage people in that thread.
I remember this LinkedIn post talking about the potential in automating C-suite functions and the comments were full of “
Ackshully there are very important intangibles that only a coked out MBA former frat boy can do that AI simply isn’t capable of ”Those same lanyard enjoyers were smugposting about how us meat computers would be replaced everywhere by treat printers and that we should celebrate being replaced, but were so narcissistic that they didn’t notice how their own jobs were actually easier to replace than the rest at the moment their fellow lanyard enjoyers decided to fuck them over.
Also notice that it’s not, critical workers are being underpaid and exploited to the point of striking, so let’s blame the owners for the impact to the economy.
Are you expecting liberals to follow a chain of cause and effect with multiple steps?
Not unless it’s how to vote.
They can’t do that either. Ask a liberal who claims to be sympathetic to Palestinians and lives outside of a swing state why they’re voting for Kamala. There’s no chance they identify that providing affirmative support to a candidate who does not need it outside of swing states does nothing but give the candidate more room to ignore pressure from voters.
Oh no no, I didn’t mean convincing people. I mean the steps for online registration in pain-staking detail while pasting that god-forbidden vote link. The one thing I’ve seen them organizing for is copy and pasting “Check your registration!” like they’re doing a civic duty.
Honestly, I’m convinced for a good chunk of them it’s just like a cultural thing. “The state says we vote at certain time of year and then go and cast vote for blue and red and that is our civic duty. Vote blue.”
There’s definitely an element of “If we don’t perform the voting ritual the democracy gods will be angered” going on.
Imagine if your doctors earning 300k a year decide to strike to demand 600k a year and people are dying left and right as a result
Uh, yeah, that’s basically what the people who get paid that much do. They say “I want more money”, and then they get it because they are too important for employers to freeze out, or are valuable enough to get hired practically anywhere the second you let them go.
Turns out strikes are just that, but instead of one person, it’s a bunch of people!
Wait, so you’re telling me that when labor cooperates, they wield massively more power than if they act as an atomized individual?
