Well, it bears mentioning that before labor laws were a thing, the way to negotiate labor disputes with the boss used to be “hey boss, me and the boys want a raise, and if you don’t like it we’ll burn the fucking factory down and break your kneecaps”.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
TIL that striking workers could get unemployment. I thought the terms for collecting it were fairly specific.
Unemployment is fairly easy to get. How many hours have you worked in the past x months/year?
Striking by choice??? What other type of strike is there?
Forced strikes, aka when you're fired.
Of course they're coming for the right to strike.
Anyone who was like "taking away the ability to strike is nbd, those rail workers got what they wanted," I don't want to see you acting like this isn't exactly what you want.
And the rail workers got a fraction of what they wanted.
the right to strike
Lol what a hilarious notion...
Oh no, they said I'm not allowed to strike, I guess that's that. Oh well, back to work.
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