Would you let your friends be cashiers?
Would you try to organize cashiers? Would you try to organize other retail workers?
Would you work together with groups that try to unionize cashiers? Would you work together with groups that argue cashiers are cops and thus shouldn't be part of the socialist movement? If not what is the correct political response (engage with the group online/ engage in physical space in discussions with the group/continue organizing cashiers or retail workers).
Are cashiers part of the working class?
If cashiers are fine, who and what is the problem here?
Does your answers change depending on whether the cashiers are working a register tallying up food prices, cinema tickets, swimming pool tickets or park/museum entries?
Please be nice and remember the no sectarian rule. This post is mostly to highlight some contradictions and tensions in real existing capitalism and your social and friend sphere. It might also highlight classism that unhoused or neurodivergent or poc comrades might be able to highlight.
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Since cashiers take all the money you give them for themselves, and since they actually purchase the checkout lane and personally own all the equipment in the checkout lane to take that money, no I would not organize them. They own capital and they use that capital to stand at the front of the grocery store to take your money. I'm honestly surprised store owners let them do this. I think it must be a backdoor deal where actually these hard working business owning cashiers are giving some money in the form of kickbacks to the store.