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[–] jimmyjoners 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All the strikes these days honestly just make me happy. Love seeing workers standing up for themselves.

I mean it does suck they need to strike at all...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If business owners weren’t parasites in the first place, and actually paid employees a thriving wage and treated them respectfully… there would be no need for unions in the first place, much less strikes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike

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

And therefore the rich have no responsibility to their workers ....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To clarify I was saying that business owners are parasites by their nature and unions will always be necessary as long as businesses are set up the way they are with all the existing incentives

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Strikes and lockouts are powerful weapons that a disgruntled employer or employee have when contract negotiations go south.

It's clear that as much as an employer wants to remove labour from their profit equation, they are still going to need it no matter what their business is with few exceptions.

I hope these actions are going to bring about a new generation of union leaders that aren't just there to maintain status quo, but fight for better working conditions like we had fought for before.