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8-1 decision:desolate:
The lib judges could have gotten some brownie points by dissenting together, but they can't even put on airs.
the American ruling class seems to have forgotten that the NLRA was created to protect them.
supposedly sotomayor and kagan joined to narrow barrett's ruling, which is already nauseating. What Alito proposed would have been much worse, probably getting rid of the right to strike altogether and sending us back to the lochner era. Tho what difference did it rly make, we're still gonna get to that point just slower.
We're still gonna get to that point but slower might as well be the DNC mantra lol
I always think of the comic with two people walking along train tracks with a train approaching from behind
One of them is in adamant, angry denial there is no train, and the other one decides to walk a little faster so that the train will still blender them, but it will take slightly longer
Really an incredibly apt comparison
Welcome to the Gilded Age. The 2030's are going to be rife with violent worker opposition as they feel they have increasingly less to lose.
A big part of why unions are so weak in the US is that they were legalistically coopted (and the militant ones were shut down during the red scare).
Every breakdown of the legalistic cooption is damage to a very particular kind of workplace organizing, which leaves other forms as the only option. It also undermines the myths of how unions should work, i.e. in open collaboration with Democrats and through strict legal channels.
While the US has poor class consciousness, we are also looking at a modest reproletarianization and rediscovery of labor organizing itself. Those who see the violence of the system are getting taught important lessons about bourgeois politics, lessons they only otherwise get from the rare cool union organizers (socialists).
This will result in escalations, overall. That is exactly what we all should be expecting under neoliberalization. They're not just going to let us organize and win, they're going to turn the screws as hard as they can, as much as they can get away with, and our entire fight domestically is to create structures in opposition. And they will make those structures illegal, so be ready for that, too.
A big part of why unions are so weak in the US is that they were legalistically coopted (and the militant ones were shut down during the red scare).
They were also culturally co-opted. Pick any American TV cop/lawyer show from the 1970s onwards, and chances are that every time the story involves a union, it's about organized crime.
Unions also regularly betrayed their own workers by kicking out socialists and minorities to try and please our ruling class, and it just made them weaker and easier to destroy
Settler moment.
More recently it's been reactionaries. Lots od reactionary Teamster unions. Cop unions tend to be Teamsters.
I mean, I think kicking out socialists and minor has to qualify unions of the past as reactionary in some way too no?
Yes but I'm thinking of unions that are against socialists because socialists are pro-trans and pro-immigrant.
Can you explain what you mean, for someone less informed on unions in the US? Are the Teamsters a reactionary bunch, or are you saying some Teamsters happen to be reactionary?
Teamsters are a union you can affiliate with when you form a union. When you're going through the legal union process in the US, you can affiliate at the time you form and it's very difficult to change afterwards.
Locals are the local union that might affiliate with a bigger union, like the Teamsters.
A lot of Teamster locals are particularly reactionary. Not all, but many. They have chuddy views and try to bargain about the latest mainstream anti-Democrat talking points and so on. Like wearing masks during the pandemic.
They are modestly militant, though, which is more than I can say for a lot of other US unions. It's worthwhile trying to reform the locals, imo - and to kick out the cops.
conditions never change! everything will stay the same! material conditions have no social/political/cultural impact! the end of history is 100% a real thing!!
Wow yeah TV is so powerful man. I- i mean they just can't escape from it. And nobody notices. Except me. I'd stop watching stream clips all day but god the propagandas just too powerful so i can barely move. If only someone would come along and tell me how to do this properly.
Why do you spend so much time in the cuck pit then. Clearly it's all you do
I misunderstood that the solidifying concrete in the mixers actually completely destroyed the trucks themselves. Honestly I was kind of thinking "fair enough, there must be a line somewhere a strike can't just burn down a factory".
That's NOT what happened.
The union brought the trucks BACK TO THE FACILITY and LEFT THE MIXERS RUNNING SO THE COMPANY WOULDN'T LOSE THE CONCRETE.
"... there must be a line somewhere a strike can’t just burn down a factory."
:cursed: don't let your dreams be dreams
That's what I thought originally too, and was going to give the new Justice props for like of OKing industrial sabotage. But the company is basically suing for lost revenue that day and the rest of the libs just shrugged and said that's fine.
I love that libs think Judges are somehow champions of justice and virtue. They are literally the arbiters and wizards that keep the arcane walls of class division up. They are objectively on the side of the powerful.
They literally wear black robes for the effect on how they are perceived. Please libs I am begging you to consider whether wearing black robes can actually make a person wiser.
The strike in question was the most costly to capital in the region in recent memory. It shut down LOTS of job sites for weeks because concrete was unavailable.
Did you know that adding cane sugar to a concrete mix will completely ruin the concrete's structural properties?
:the-more-you-know:
I’m not a labor strategist, but this incident does illustrate how workers in certain critical sectors have the power to amplify the effects of their strikes by preventing downstream work.
Remember back when every single worker strike had a death toll even in the imperial core? Glad those times are gone :blob-no-thoughts:
America is gearing up to try and reshore industry as globalization seemingly has hit its limits and America is no longer able to guarantee its own global hegemony. They're trying to get ahead of the workers' ability to demand concessions early with shit like this and the fed's push to raise unemployment rates to guarantee a reserve army of labor for the factories. They're also fighting an uphill battle tho as the US begins to experience a demographic crisis with the retiring baby boomer overhang and the dropping birth rate, tho they don't seem willing to open the borders to bring in cheap labor like they've done in the past. Can't wait for the dems to paint it as progressive to ship in migrant labor from LatAm as a strike breaking tactic. Neo-fordism but this time you don't get any work benefits
The court complaint that people don't think they are legitimate anymore. Then they do shit like this. Gee whiz
Union declares bankruptcy, dissolves, workers form new union. I don’t suppose the same thing that works for big business would be allowed by the unions?
"Why doesn't it work?"
"It just doesn't"
"Why not you stupid bastard?"
Fun fact I learned about the show squid game that was probably lost on most of the western audience (myself included):
The steel worker strike the main character participated in was very real, but not only were the workers brutalized and broken physically, the courts actually ruled they be held liable for the whole thing and a lot of them were left with the equivalent of literal millions they owned in restitution. Many of them either committed suicide and/or divorced their wives to protect their families from their debt.
That is almost certainly the actual source of the main characters debt. His "poor life decisions" which got him to the games were the result of him daring to stand up and fight for his fellow workers.
So yeah....That.
Which also makes sense why he would turn to gambling. A real job would never pay enough to pay the debt back. But one lucky win...
That yes, and also a lot of the strikers were apparently blacklisted. His ability to have employment to even service the debt was heavily impacted...because the actual goal for the strikers was to be punitive and destroy their lives for daring to stand up. Gambling was basically one of the only avenues left.
They will garnish your wages and probably reestablish debtor’s prison where they beat you until you agree to have your mother dug up and ground up to sell the powdered calcium
Garnishing wages is petty shit. They'll take the fucking pension fund and crush the entire union.
Is there a strike that doesn't produce (at least alleged) damages for the employer?
I’m all for strikes, but not when you financially hurt the employer
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
:agony-shivering: :agony-acid: :agony-immense:
I would love to hear libs say this line when it fits, like:
I'm all for strikes/wage contracts, but especially when you financially hurt your workers.
