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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So You think they shouldn't have done anything, because the union is not big enough? Moral is not an option with a small union? Am I getting this right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think it depends on the goal. If I'm trying to stop a corporation from doing something profitable a large union, one that contains most corpo workers, including the ones producing this profit, can strike, halting the production that generates this profit. The union could do this for a moral reason. If the union however contains for the sake of argument 1% of the workers and none of the ones doing the work in question, then staging a protest can't force a stop to the morally reprehensible production. It also makes this 1% an easy target to get rid of thus making it harder to organize more workers needed to stop production. So if I wanted to gain this power over the corpo, I would probably protest outside of union capacity.

E: They're already gone..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, american employee protection sucks ... Where I live you could easily fight being fired for this. So maybe thats where our different stances come from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If there is a criminal charge or conviction I think you would be fired in most countries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is probably why they called the cops, so they can fire them for an obvious cause and not have to deal with any questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What would be the crime here? Am I missing something? Protesting is not (or shouldn't be) against the law, as long as you don't behave illegally)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reports seems to indicate that they were arrested for trespassing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah that, yeah they were in the CEOs office. That might be misdemeanor, but is it a felony? Pretty sure you couldn't be fired for this here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, but it seems that at least it is enough to be arrested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] Burn_The_Right 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the U.S., you can be fired for practically anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, probably