Good Work Strike
One of the biggest problems for service industry workers is that many forms of direct action, such as Slowdowns, end up hurting the consumer (mostly fellow workers) more than the boss. One way around this is to provide better or cheaper service -- at the boss' expense, of course.
Workers at Mercy Hospital in France, who were afraid that patients would go untreated if they went on strike, instead refused to file the billing slips for drugs, lab tests, treatments, and therapy. As a result, the patients got better care (since time was being spent caring for them instead of doing paperwork), for free. The hospital's income was cut in half, and panic-stricken administrators gave in to all of the workers' demands after three days.
In 1968, Lisbon bus and train workers gave free rides to all passengers to protest a denial of wage increases. Conductors and drivers arrived for work as usual, but the conductors did not pick up their money satchels. Needless to say, public support was solidly behind these take-no-fare strikers.
In New York City, USA, IWW restaurant workers, after losing a strike, won some of their demands by heeding the advice of IWW organizers to "pile up the plates, give 'em double helpings, and figure the checks on the low side."
Never heard of that type of action. Sounds very effective.
Als Person die fast immer Maske in Zügen trägt und deswegen ab und zu Kommentare oder direkte Anfeidungen erlebt: Es kann sich sehr befreiend anfühlen was zurück zu sagen.
Es ist aber auch etwas, was ich nur mache wenn ich alleine unterwegs bin um keine anderen Menschen mit reinzuziehen. Bisher ist mir nichts schlimmes passiert, was womöglich Glück ist und bestimmt sehr viel mit meinen Privilegien zu tun hat.