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With strikes, the only ones that have really been effective are the ones involving employees who can't be replaced. Major league athletes are a perfect example.

Everyone else is replaceable, ultimately.
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Hence the need for general strikes and worker solidarity writ large.

Capital colludes against labor continuously through the bribery of the legislative and regulatory process (and just good old fashioned financial extortion of their workers). The only legal recourse for labor is strikes: early and often. It's the only way to level the playing the field. This is also why there is constant action to discredit unions and circumscribe or prohibit collective action. Capital has all the cards except, in a democracy, voting numbers, but even there capital can typically manufacture the consent it needs to exploit labor by playing demographic divide and conquer, hitching its interests to usefully idiotic social and religious movements, or just flat out disenfranchising voters with the "wrong" characteristics and stifling candidates with "impractical" (read: redistributive) policy preferences.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Frankly, that's part of the problem with public education. Districts have gone top heavy with "assistant" and "associate" superintendents for every specialty, and with salaries 2 to 5 times a classroom instructor. Buildings have a principal and multiple assistant principals, and now this thing called "dean of students". Why does a middle school with 500 kids need three, four principals and a dean of students? And still the teachers get to deal with discipline issues. The teachers are getting screwed over in too many top-heavy districts.

The main (positive) difference: no golden parachutes.
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The problem with public education has consistently been tax cuts for people like you, which has gutted funding for public education. Lets not get distracted by what you see as structural management issues when the core problem is greed- just like the accumulation of wealth at the top.
 
Kepler said:
Hence the need for general strikes and worker solidarity writ large.

Capital colludes against labor continuously through the bribery of the legislative and regulatory process (and just good old fashioned financial extortion of their workers). The only legal recourse for labor is strikes: early and often. It's the only way to level the playing the field. This is also why there is constant action to discredit unions and circumscribe or prohibit collective action. Capital has all the cards except, in a democracy, voting numbers, but even there capital can typically manufacture the consent it needs to exploit labor by playing demographic divide and conquer, hitching its interests to usefully idiotic social and religious movements, or just flat out disenfranchising voters with the "wrong" characteristics and stifling candidates with "impractical" (read: redistributive) policy preferences.
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Have you ever been through a strike? Been a striker yourself, or married to one? Have a family member as a striker?

Barbara Koppel did an excellent movie many years ago about a strike that occurred here in Minnesota, and the toll it takes on the individuals involved. It isn't pretty.

My guess is you are sitting there thinking about strikes like we see in France where a bunch of people go out and chant and wave flags for a few days, tying up traffic, and then everyone goes back to work without really accomplishing anything.

Yeah, we'll probably see that here, some day, but to about the same lousy effect they've seen in France.
 
SJHovey said:
Have you ever been through a strike? Been a striker yourself, or married to one? Have a family member as a striker?

Barbara Koppel did an excellent movie many years ago about a strike that occurred here in Minnesota, and the toll it takes on the individuals involved. It isn't pretty.

My guess is you are sitting there thinking about strikes like we see in France where a bunch of people go out and chant and wave flags for a few days, tying up traffic, and then everyone goes back to work without really accomplishing anything.

Yeah, we'll probably see that here, some day, but to about the same lousy effect they've seen in France.
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I’m confused. Are you saying the few strikes we have here are actually effective?
 
psych said:
I’m confused. Are you saying the few strikes we have here are actually effective?
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No, unless you mean effective in severely damaging the lives of the striking workers and their families.

Striking is sort of like being married, and having two girlfriends on the side. In theory it might seem great, in actual practice it usually ends badly.
 
SJHovey said:
No, unless you mean effective in severely damaging the lives of the striking workers and their families.

Striking is sort of like being married, and having two girlfriends on the side. In theory it might seem great, in actual practice it usually ends badly.
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So, in your opinion, if striking isn’t the answer to better wages and working conditions, what other avenues do they have?
 
Strikes are like a strong military. They are a deterrent. If you have to use them, it's very bad for both sides. But unless they are a threat capital will just rape you whenever it wants.
 
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So, in your opinion, if striking isn’t the answer to better wages and working conditions, what other avenues do they have?
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When management won't listen you can either suck it up and try to make the most of it, or quit and find another job. Those are your options in this country. Many non-union folks are currently exercising the latter option. So, unions are rightfully exercising their option to strike at a time when supply chains are already squeezed globally. The ball is in management's court.
 
SJHovey said:
No, unless you mean effective in severely damaging the lives of the striking workers and their families.

Striking is sort of like being married, and having two girlfriends on the side. In theory it might seem great, in actual practice it usually ends badly.
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A strike is literally what created the position I work in right now.

(UPS didn’t have non-driving full time positions until after the strike in 1997)
 
Will someone please think of the difficult, thankless work of Pinkerton agents back in the day and how hard it must've been to recruit good candidates for a job so hated by half the public?

/sarc
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
When management won't listen you can either suck it up and try to make the most of it, or quit and find another job. Those are your options in this country. Many non-union folks are currently exercising the latter option. So, unions are rightfully exercising their option to strike at a time when supply chains are already squeezed globally. The ball is in management's court.
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Yep, and good for them on it. I hope they extract a sh-tload from John Deere. Fuck the fat cats.
 
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That was a poem From a simpler time

Boss makes a dollar
I don't make jack
That's why I riot
To seize the means back.
 
Was terminated from working with autistic kids today. 2 hours later, I get a call saying I'll be working in a neuro rehabilitation home for those with severe brain and nervous system injuries.
 
I don't mind driving for Door Dash and Uber Eats.

However, I've been getting these orders for $2.50 with no tip that make me giggle before declining.
 
New job, while not fantastic, is good. At least my coworkers are people closer to my age, everyone is affirming, and the residents I care for are delightful, like honorary grandparents.

But they are short staffed and to get people to cover at other locations, they offer things like gift cards.
 
The number floating around is that 25% of our software team (>300 people) has resigned in the last 8 weeks. Disaster is in 3…2….1….

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Not clear if it’s mandate related or just part of the great resignation in general. Programmers do tend to be a fiercely independent/libertarian lot.
 
My firm just gave a bunch of us an equity grant. I mean, cool and all but it won’t vest for years so either fix base salaries or expect a massacre of attrition come late Feb
 
My second shift lead last night: "I don't know why they hired you." Then proceeded to flaunt her 25 years experience and how she trained her kids in direct care.

I had started this job to gain experience and make some money. Now I have a new reason: spite. Pissing her off with my presence alone.
 
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