Labor unions generally oppose vaccine mandates because their job is to stand up for all workers - even anti-vax workers - regardless of whether it's right or wrong.
That being said, vaccine mandates are not the reason why there is a strike wave right now. To suggest that these workers are striking against vaccines is a right-wing, pro-capitalist talking point.
Vaccine mandates are good and there is absolutely no intelligent left-wing case against them.
Richard Wolff needs to get vaccinated against :brainworms:
By this anti-mandate logic the union endangers 99% of their membership at work so their 1% chud members can “freely” spew COVID out of their commemorative maga kazoos during lunch hour.
Letting the soft handed professional class run central offices was a mistake.
Isn’t this like defending workers who don’t want to follow OSHA regulations or something?
They are just making the work environment more dangerous for everyone else.
OSHA are regulations the company has to follow for the most part, worker training is part of that, but the standards of safety are being put on the workplace not individual workers.
Probably, but obviously people aren't taking it that way. I'm not saying there shouldn't be vaccine requirements, it's just having it at the company level instead of state is always going to get union push back just because that's like their whole job.
I don't think it's because of mandates. It's a tight labor market and quits and strikes are more likely to happen when labor is hard to come by. Have any of the John Deere union leaders cited vaccines? Kellogg's? No, they cite poor working conditions and low wages at a time of record profits.
Labor unions generally oppose vaccine mandates because their job is to stand up for all workers - even anti-vax workers - regardless of whether it's right or wrong.
That being said, vaccine mandates are not the reason why there is a strike wave right now. To suggest that these workers are striking against vaccines is a right-wing, pro-capitalist talking point.
Vaccine mandates are good and there is absolutely no intelligent left-wing case against them.
Richard Wolff needs to get vaccinated against :brainworms:
By this anti-mandate logic the union endangers 99% of their membership at work so their 1% chud members can “freely” spew COVID out of their commemorative maga kazoos during lunch hour.
Letting the soft handed professional class run central offices was a mistake.
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Isn’t this like defending workers who don’t want to follow OSHA regulations or something?
They are just making the work environment more dangerous for everyone else.
The carpenter's union is taking away my freedom by requiring steel toes!!! :powercry-2:
OSHA are regulations the company has to follow for the most part, worker training is part of that, but the standards of safety are being put on the workplace not individual workers.
Vaccine requirements are the same as requiring things such as PPE for workers.
Probably, but obviously people aren't taking it that way. I'm not saying there shouldn't be vaccine requirements, it's just having it at the company level instead of state is always going to get union push back just because that's like their whole job.
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I don't think it's because of mandates. It's a tight labor market and quits and strikes are more likely to happen when labor is hard to come by. Have any of the John Deere union leaders cited vaccines? Kellogg's? No, they cite poor working conditions and low wages at a time of record profits.
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/10/31/is-the-strike-and-quit-wave-due-to-vaccine-mandates/
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