What I don’t understand is why the only strike that seems to be brought up for remembrance is the one that failed. How about the strikes that won much of the rights we enjoy now? (which are slowly being bargained away by Unity for nothing). There’s a difference between going on strike and being strike ready. When your employer, whose goa…
What I don’t understand is why the only strike that seems to be brought up for remembrance is the one that failed. How about the strikes that won much of the rights we enjoy now? (which are slowly being bargained away by Unity for nothing). There’s a difference between going on strike and being strike ready. When your employer, whose goal is to give you as little as possible while extracting as much of your labor as possible, already knows that you will never withhold that labor no matter how poorly they treat you, they understand that they have all of the leverage. It’s like showing up to a gun fight with some nail clippers. All of this anti-strike propaganda focuses on history from the 1970s while IGNORING the history of 2023. Los Angeles teachers will be receiving 9% yearly raises over the next three years and they didn’t even have to strike. They are just STRIKE READY.
What I don’t understand is why the only strike that seems to be brought up for remembrance is the one that failed. How about the strikes that won much of the rights we enjoy now? (which are slowly being bargained away by Unity for nothing). There’s a difference between going on strike and being strike ready. When your employer, whose goal is to give you as little as possible while extracting as much of your labor as possible, already knows that you will never withhold that labor no matter how poorly they treat you, they understand that they have all of the leverage. It’s like showing up to a gun fight with some nail clippers. All of this anti-strike propaganda focuses on history from the 1970s while IGNORING the history of 2023. Los Angeles teachers will be receiving 9% yearly raises over the next three years and they didn’t even have to strike. They are just STRIKE READY.