• @WallEx@feddit.de
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    28 months ago

    So You think they shouldn’t have done anything, because the union is not big enough? Moral is not an option with a small union? Am I getting this right?

    • Avid Amoeba
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      8 months ago

      I think it depends on the goal. If I’m trying to stop a corporation from doing something profitable a large union, one that contains most corpo workers, including the ones producing this profit, can strike, halting the production that generates this profit. The union could do this for a moral reason. If the union however contains for the sake of argument 1% of the workers and none of the ones doing the work in question, then staging a protest can’t force a stop to the morally reprehensible production. It also makes this 1% an easy target to get rid of thus making it harder to organize more workers needed to stop production. So if I wanted to gain this power over the corpo, I would probably protest outside of union capacity.

      E: They’re already gone…

      • @WallEx@feddit.de
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        38 months ago

        Yeah, american employee protection sucks … Where I live you could easily fight being fired for this. So maybe thats where our different stances come from.

        • gian
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          28 months ago

          If there is a criminal charge or conviction I think you would be fired in most countries.

          • @WallEx@feddit.de
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            28 months ago

            What would be the crime here? Am I missing something? Protesting is not (or shouldn’t be) against the law, as long as you don’t behave illegally)

          • Avid Amoeba
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            8 months ago

            This is probably why they called the cops, so they can fire them for an obvious cause and not have to deal with any questions.