• volkvulture [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Many people are protesting & striking & resigning against mandates

    Better covid protections & higher wages are part and parcel to the larger struggle against being pitted against customers by owners/managers

    • effervescent [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Many people are protesting & striking & resigning against mandates

      There have been dozens of stories about this and they’ve all been debunked as right-wing grift. There’s a lot of money in this narrative right now and you’re literally parroting what amounts to science denial propaganda

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2021/11/01/2300-fdny-firefighters-call-in-sick-in-apparent-protest-of-vaccine-mandate/?sh=129a0f336b2f

        so you're saying 2,000 NY firefighters just called in for some other reason?

        • effervescent [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I’m saying that the commissioner has every incentive to call what they’re doing a “strike” and is literally the only source saying so. If you put a bunch of workers on unpaid leave, a lot of them are going to burn their sick time. That’s not a strike. But a strike would be illegal and would let them recall the workers, which is the whole point.

          • volkvulture [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            yes, we can call labor action many names, but it's still labor action... within or outside of union strictures

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2021/11/01/2300-fdny-firefighters-call-in-sick-in-apparent-protest-of-vaccine-mandate/?sh=129a0f336b2f

        firefighters

                    • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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                      3 years ago

                      And they are a microscopic segment of the workforce in a very specific sector, limited to a certain geographic area; the vast, vast majoirty of people on strike right now, from John Deere, to coal miners, to film workers, to Starbuck's baristas, to Amazon warehouse drones are protesting shit working conditions; a couple hundred freedom patriot cops and firefighters dos not speak for the working class.

                      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                        3 years ago

                        https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/business/covid-vaccine-workers-quit/index.html

                        this says the opposite

                            • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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                              3 years ago

                              if their employer mandates vaccines and doesn't offer the testing option

                              Learn to fucking read

                              37% of unvaccinated workers say they will quit their jobs if forced to either get vaccinated

                              37 is less than 72

                              • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                                3 years ago

                                " 72% of the unvaccinated workers say they will quit."

                                Union reps & labor experts say it's the most complex issue they have had to deal with in ages

                                "“​​This is one of the most complex problems that unions have faced possibly in my lifetime,” says Susan Schurman, a professor of labor studies and employment relations at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. “Because there is so much diversity among their members in terms of how they are thinking about this.”

                                Tyson Foods (TSN) offered about 120,000 employees additional paid time off if they comply with its new COVID-19 vaccine mandate. A coalition of unions representing roughly 43,000 Disney World (DIS) employees agreed to a mandate with the company, though it excludes workers with a relevant medical condition or religious beliefs. And in Washington, a union working on behalf of 47,000 state employees reached a tentative deal on a vaccine mandate that will afford workers an extra personal day."