The National Labor Relations Board has ordered a union of striking coal miners in Alabama to pay $13.3 million in damages to the Warrior Met Coal company, 16 months after they walked off the job to protest huge cuts to their pay, pensions and healthcare benefits. The NLRB cited the strike’s financial toll on Warrior Met’s labor and security costs, as well as “lost revenues for unmined coal.” In a statement, the United Mine Workers of America called the NLRB’s ruling a “slap in the face” of workers and said it has no intention of paying the fine. Union President Cecil Roberts said, “Is it now the policy of the federal government that unions be required to pay a company’s losses as a consequence of their members exercising their rights as working people? This is outrageous and effectively negates workers’ right to strike.”
  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Sounds like a good time to riot.

    • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Burning the books where the debt is stored is going to be a lot harder now that everything is stored digitally

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        So we make a gigantic sacrifice to the sun god Ra, and we say "Mighty Ra, I beseech you to send a giant cloud of ionized particles hurtling towards the earth at tens of thousands of miles per hour, that the data centers of our enemies may be wiped clean!"

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Just a few. In the upper atmosphere. Over critical infrastructure targets and non-EMP hardened data centers.

            Honestly, a union launching a nuke to cause an EMP burst would be the ultimate labor flex.

            • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Just a few. In the upper atmosphere. Over critical infrastructure targets and non-EMP hardened data centers.

              Please, Xi, may I please get just a crumb of nuclear ordnance.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Managers and scabs for that company plowed into strikers with their trucks. It was straight stomach churning to hear about.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Once again the capitalists have forgotten that the alternative to the workers striking is those workers storming the capitalist's mansion and beating him to death in front of his family.

  • comi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The NLRB cited the strike’s financial toll on Warrior Met’s labor and security costs, as well as “lost revenues for unmined coal.”

    The fuck

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is one of the most explicit examples of capital declaring their entitlement to people's labor. "Either work for us, or you will pay us what we would have gotten from your labor."

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    A reminder that every union in the US is state sanctioned and the mediator between labor and capital is the capitalist state.

    • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This is the history of why labor boards are established. In my city, our labor counsel began because workers were “striking too often and disrupting the local economy”

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The National Labor Relations Board should be characters in minecraft.

  • solaranus
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    1 year ago

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  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Damn. I can't remember who runs the executive branch of the US government. I wonder if they could do something?

    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He’s too busy agonizing over whether or not he should forgive $10 of student loans. Don’t worry though a decision is expected to be made very soon!