- cross-posted to:
- boycottus@lemmy.ca
- Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
- Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- boycottus@lemmy.ca
- Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
- Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59378754
The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder
The vast majority of Americans don’t have that option.
why not?
Because most places in the USA have atrocious worker protection laws. Even if you’re in a name brand, corporate job with thousands of people on board with unionizing, they can close your office or fire everyone with no repercussions.
Just look at Blizzard, Google, Starbucks, etc… They take a chainsaw to any union talk and have never been bothered with consequences. If you’re employed by a tiny, family owned business you have even less leverage. Your personal relationship to the owner is much more important to achieving your goals than paperwork solidarity with the 2 other employees.
but i mean… the entire reason unions work is because of a mandate from the masses. if they close an office the only reasonable counter-action is for every other office to unionise too.
Because of a lack of said unions
from what i hear there are unions everywhere in the us. why are they not doing anything?
They’re to weak and rarely on a national level. My industry doesn’t even have one at all.
and there’s no generic one? crazy
It’s even crazier when you consider how many n people died just to get us that much.