What if this is just a delay tactic? Put some randos in front of the machines, below smoke everywhere and maybe that’s an extra few weeks that the strikers have to strike for. Maybe it’s not meant to succeed, just slow failure as a means of negotiating better.
I think watching a bunch of useless and unsellable merch thanks to incompetence get produced will only embolden strikes and cost the company more money.
This is absolutely an, "I'M NOT OWNED, I'M NOT OWNED" moment.
Anyone who crosses the line is a scab, and I think we all agree on what we think about scabs. That said, the company is trying to break a strike by putting a bunch of engineers and managers to work on the shop floor and humiliating them. They will only prove how valuable those workers were in the first place.
These are the brainiacs who decide just because it's theoretically possible you should hold a +/- 0.00005 inch diameter on a gearshaft coated in super-hard chrome and maintain a surface finish between 4 and 8 microinches root mean square. Even tossing the whole labor struggle aside, I'd just love to see them try.
It’s based to cross a picket line now?
If you're so incompetent that your mere presence is an obstacle to profit, then yes!
Slow-walk the work and fuck it up as much as is plausible. Make it more costly than shutting down.
What if this is just a delay tactic? Put some randos in front of the machines, below smoke everywhere and maybe that’s an extra few weeks that the strikers have to strike for. Maybe it’s not meant to succeed, just slow failure as a means of negotiating better.
I think watching a bunch of useless and unsellable merch thanks to incompetence get produced will only embolden strikes and cost the company more money.
This is absolutely an, "I'M NOT OWNED, I'M NOT OWNED" moment.
If it’s doomed to failure, this is probably the case. Let’s hope it’s doomed to failure.
Anyone who crosses the line is a scab, and I think we all agree on what we think about scabs. That said, the company is trying to break a strike by putting a bunch of engineers and managers to work on the shop floor and humiliating them. They will only prove how valuable those workers were in the first place.
These are the brainiacs who decide just because it's theoretically possible you should hold a +/- 0.00005 inch diameter on a gearshaft coated in super-hard chrome and maintain a surface finish between 4 and 8 microinches root mean square. Even tossing the whole labor struggle aside, I'd just love to see them try.