NEW: This Supreme Court case could devastate workers’ right to strike.
If wealthy corporations get their way, companies would be able to sue workers for the cost of a strike — like spoiled food, lost revenue, and more.
It would be a massive setback for the working class.
Communist countries are bad because despite there being an elected legislative body, a small group of individuals ends up holding all the power and making all the important decisions…
The perfect analogy is Iran. You can tell normal people that Iran actually does have a democratically elected government, but the clever trick is that it doesn’t have power over the unelected old men in robes who actually decide what happens.
The unelected old men in robes.
K, we’re not “striking” we’re “quitting” until you rehire us after meeting our demands. I feel like this doesn’t mean much in a country with at-will employment
Also can someone remind the capitalists that we made labor boards and laws on how strikes operate because the alternative is shooting them in front of their wives and children.
I think their end goal is literally to make employees who quit liable for any costs that the business incurs because of their absence.
At some point they have to, right? They’re going to have to come up with some way that isn’t direct slavery but also people can’t suddenly quit without legal repercussions. Then when that happens the goal is to tighten the repercussions. Then criminalization.
I think it’s only a matter of time before Amazon starts buying housing and revives the company town
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This is also what the UK government is apparently pursuing. The timing is not coincidental.
Once the US implements it, the tories or labour can point to the US and babble about how the UK needs to maintain their competitive advantage or something.
