• @orbitz@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    207 months ago

    That’s how I think of the Canada Post strike that was just forced back to work. The timing was great, I didn’t read if they got anything to go back work now (they can strike / deal later or something) but it sure had an impact. I had to actually go to a provincial store for my weed heh, but I’ve been reluctant to order much due to that and I definitely support them for their demands. Everyone should be compensated for the recent inflation and they provide an essential service in a properly run society.

      • @orbitz@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        57 months ago

        When I heard it was forced back my first thought was ‘well that doesn’t help for Xmas stuff anymore, so why not just make a proper deal? It seems like a lose lose for the government’. The prime time was already delayed so figure it out.

        For the non Canadians I’m pretty sure they were working to make sure benefit cheques and such got through, so hopefully things like that weren’t delayed cause I do recognize how awful that can be for those that need it.

    • Doug Holland
      link
      fedilink
      English
      197 months ago

      This is the rule for any strike, anywhere, in any industry. When people take a stand instead of taking a paycheck, it means their situation was literally unworkable.

      There’s never been a strike where management was in the right.

      • @SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        27 months ago

        When we had nurses strikes in the U.K. a year or two ago, people were saying “they should be doing it for the love of nursing, not money”. Fucking infuriating attitude.

    • EleventhHour
      link
      fedilink
      English
      42
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      Exactly. And make sure that everyone knows it’s Amazon which is to blame, not the workers.

  • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    467 months ago

    There was a strike at my supermarket a few months ago, and some Nextdoor Karens’ went:

    “During the start of the school season?!”

    Like it’s not supposed to be CONVENIENT.

  • @SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    307 months ago

    Fuck the police that broke the picket. Getting something that you could have bought elsewhere in the post isn’t life and death.

  • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    197 months ago

    But now that corporations are too big to fail we can’t let workers strike. Tommy might not get a Christmas present! Won’t anyone think of Tommy? We just have to let corporations exploit their workers to (checks notes) force them to remain in a warehouse as the area floods, instead of moving to high ground.

  • @woop_woop@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    47 months ago

    Union busting is a real and legal thing. This isn’t it. You promoting these lies harms people trying to unionize.

      • @woop_woop@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        17 months ago

        Because the term means real things that can be legally fought against. If you misuse the term and teach others to misuse it, it’s is more likely that other people will react incorrectly to challenges faced.

        An easy way to undermine a movement is to look at people who are saying factually incorrect things to make their point and say “see? They don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t listen to them”. And boom you’ve now made it easier to convince anyone on the fence to side against you.

        It’s a really easy and common divide and conquer strategy.

        If you want to help people while firing them up, then feed them the real information about union busting and how companies are actually doing it.

        • @woop_woop@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          17 months ago

          Saying that “strikes will cause disruption” is not union busting in any sense of the word.

          It’s the consequence for shitty company practices and how workers get to be heard. It’s literally the point of a strike. It’s stating a fact.

    • Harvey656
      link
      fedilink
      27 months ago

      Don’t hurt your knees bending down so hard boot licker.

    • peto (he/him)
      link
      fedilink
      English
      127 months ago

      I hear it often from people, especially during the train strikes, often paired with them saying how they have bad working conditions and poor pay too. I generally try to help them understand that if you have union envy that’s a problem with your organisation, not theirs.

      Collective action works. It has changed the world before, and will do again. There is a reason why all these employers are scared of it.

    • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      497 months ago

      We had the Canada Post strike here recently and my coworker was talking about how little respect she had for them because they just deliver mail and how stupid the strike and picket lines were. We’re unionized and it protects us from lots and pays us very well, and she doesn’t see why that’s the same thing.

    • IninewCrow
      link
      fedilink
      English
      217 months ago

      Because the same people who own the media are the same people who support the companies fighting against the striking workers

  • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    3
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    Technically the point of the strike is to force the business to compromise.

    It being disruptive literally benefits nobody, but the ball is in the business’ court to end it.

  • @1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    67 months ago

    annddddd people are going to call the workers free-loaders and how they should be lucky to have a job. fucking scum.