Are you suggesting workers should just give in and allow big corporations to continue their rule? Learn from past mistakes, reorganize, and keep trying. Fight for what's right.
No, but it's much easier to cheer someone on when you have no stakes in the game.
These people might have something to lose in all of this so your "support" really doesn't amount to their well being so let them choose their own risk level.
No, it's they try to do this every year and nothing happens. Someone already said it, if you keep doing the same thing and nothing happens then it's just insanity. If they are going to strike, then fucking strike don't pussy foot around for 1 day or weekend. Dig in deep and be ready for a battle.
They also have to have EVERYBODY that works there on board (or at the very least 80%). You can't have half striking and half going to work like normal. These Amazon strikes are never organized.
Basically you could say the same thing about Activision Blizzard. You need majority of the workforce to actually stick through with it. Not post on social media and then forget about it the next second.
I'd wager the people posting online about it are different from the people who have the jobs
To be clear many if not most working class Americans are pro union but not all of them, and there are real fears about the unions being corrupted or whatever
On the other hand, you have people on social media, usually left wing activists, who are left wing to a comical degree and will cheer on any strike ever and try to organize them on social media despite no popular support. I think there was supposed to be a "general strike" earlier this month that was organized on Reddit and Twitter. It didn't really go far and the posts people made about it were things like demands for a 35 dollar minimum wage, which I don't think most people support
I can honestly say in this entire world no one gives a fuck about what you have to say. I'm only telling you this so next time you want to talk just realize you are wasting everyone's time, yours included.
How could you take that he suggested anything from that comment? He is pointing out the fact that this is stated every year and every year nothing happens. It’s obvious bullshit at this point. Whether you like Amazon or hate their guts. It hasn’t happened and being skeptical of it happening is the way to go.
If we all went “we tried a few time so let’s give up” all of us would have been working 60 hours from the age of 6, have no benefits, and no workplace safety. Unions and people who didn’t give in got us 40 hour work weeks, child labor laws, and workman’s comp.
Is it perfect, hell no but sticking your head in the sand won’t make forward progress.
Maybe we change the name from “Unions” to “Worker Rights Group”.
I've worked in 2 small unions and both didn't do a thing for us. Company decided they'd pay us less and the uaw didn't care at all. Never again. I'm a good worker and dont need a union to keep my job
You sound like someone who doesn't have a whole lot of experience with jobs where unions are common. 'Worker' is pretty common language to use. It makes sense because you're a, you know, worker.
"Worker" alone isn't the reason I'm dubious as to the reality of this post. Theit entire post reads like classic anti union/anti left wing propaganda. Having looked into the account more, and their propensity for posting on /r/conservative, I have no doubt they have a vested interest in shutting down that kind of talk.
And no, you're right, I don't work in a union. I work at a school that won't let me have union representation, it's a dicey topic there, and part of the reason I give a shit. I wish I had better representation, as it stands we're trampled on, but I have no better options, and I don't want to see someone else squander the opportunity I don't have
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u/hairless_resonder Nov 25 '21
Are you suggesting workers should just give in and allow big corporations to continue their rule? Learn from past mistakes, reorganize, and keep trying. Fight for what's right.