https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1556466211399110657

video:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRUpUXBp

an article on it:

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/starbucks-accused-union-busting-after-sacking-entire-workforce-south-carolina-store

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The fear of a surplus labor thief, can't even look anyone in the eyes when faced with solidarity.

    edit:

    In March, the coffee chain recruited former CIA operative Amanda Stanfill as its manager of global intelligence for retail operations.

    She had also previously worked for the US State Department and the notorious anti-union Pinkerton intelligence agency.

    :the-pigs:

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Thinking about the recent case of Chinese factory workers kidnapping their boss over unpaid wages, and the cops showing up and agreeing with the workers.

    • Soap_Owl [any]
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      2 years ago

      Anybody got the link? I wanna make a meme of these two articles side by side

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Here's one example, but if you google "Chinese workers kidnap boss" it seems that this is a common labor tactic there lmao.

        In a strange turn of events the police are treating the kidnapping as an internal/industrial dispute, and are refusing to intervene as they do not believe Mr Starnes to be in immediate physical danger.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Me: Hey Joe, what is all this police money for?

    Joe: To fight right wing militants, of course

    Me: Oh, okay

    Joe: Haha! Is actually for union busting!

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    Boss: We here at "Conglomo Corp" want you to know that you're opinions are valuable to us. Our door is always opened to hear about your concerns and suggestions.

    Also the Boss: SHIT THEY'RE IN MY OFFICE! HELP HELP HELP!

  • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Reminder that it’s direct supervisors, not paid muscle or CEOs, who are on the union busters’ front line. All unionization attempts should identify social leaders early and often, either co-opting them before management realizes the game being played or neutralizing them if they’re going to side with middle/upper management. There’s a good chance that corporate warned them ahead of time, “your workers may corner you with a list of demands and not let you leave. This is a form of kidnapping and assault and should be reported to HR immediately.” Their initial response was probably, “yeah whatever, my team would never do that.” But then as soon as they’re in the situation, even if they’re fully capable of leaving, all they can think about is the training and the fact that what is happening to them is “kidnapping and assault”. At that point they shut down and trust their superiors implicitly.

    The same thing works in the opposite direction. Once you’ve built a relationship with someone over time, you can warn them about how the playbook works. They probably won’t believe you. Until they do. This process is called inoculation and while it’s important not to do it too soon, it is the single most important step in fighting union busting. The only things more important in the whole process of forming a union are to move slow/methodically and to keeps records of Protected and Concerted Actions.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      keeps records of Protected and Concerted Actions.

      Can you elaborate on this?

      • ShittyWallpaper [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I don’t know what it’s called in places outside the US, but here there are (admittedly weak) protections for workers discussing their conditions for the sake of improving them. Keeping notes or records of such conversations is necessary for the legal side of things, for better or for worse.

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

      When "In Minecraft" turns in to LARPing with your coworkers as a team building exercise

  • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Imagine being a store manager and being this fucking petty, grats, now you legit have 0 workers, and your store will either need to be manned by yourself only or it will be closed.

  • Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    Oh good heavens it appears to be adventurism o'clock

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        You are almost always correct. However, if they are going to hit you with 20 to life for attending a work meeting you have nothing to lose.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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          2 years ago

          :spray-bottle: you still have your life and if there's anything else you should learn from the black panthers is that as long as you're alive you can keep organizing - even in prison.

          It's easy to die a martyr but infinitely more harder to keep on living as a revolutionary.

          Edit: you better change that "almost always correct" to "100% always correct because you're the one true liberal on this leftist website"

          • Soap_Owl [any]
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            2 years ago

            Fair critique. Obviously this is too blackpilling for me to be able to process this reasonably.

  • Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    For real tho these charges are decades of time easy if they stick. This is 10/10 fash behavior. Like, i cannot really describe how the next step up from this is just deaths quads.