Yeah. I admit, I didn’t look closely, and didn’t realize it was all spin from union brass. It sounded like a labour win. Maybe I was just too excited to hear of it.
This is unfortunate. Hopefully the employees balk at the contract and hit the streets. I’m sure the bluster was coming in the face of the threat of back-to-work orders from government, but if levied, the striking workers need to stand up to government.
Not that I expect that they will. If it’s anything like here, they’ll be back to work within hours of BtW legislation/exec orders.
Honestly, my initial knee jerk reaction was roughly the same… but then my skeptical nature took over :P
At this point, I’m just convinced that labor won’t actually be taken seriously in the US until and unless one or more major”economic pillar” unions (e.g. teamsters - best of luck to the writers and actors guilds, but they’re not immediately crucial to our economic system, to be blunt) go on an extended nationwide strike, with all that that entails.
My first reaction when everyone started trumpeting about the deal was “if the deal is that good, it wouldn’t need all this spin”.
I see that I was right.
Yeah. I admit, I didn’t look closely, and didn’t realize it was all spin from union brass. It sounded like a labour win. Maybe I was just too excited to hear of it.
This is unfortunate. Hopefully the employees balk at the contract and hit the streets. I’m sure the bluster was coming in the face of the threat of back-to-work orders from government, but if levied, the striking workers need to stand up to government.
Not that I expect that they will. If it’s anything like here, they’ll be back to work within hours of BtW legislation/exec orders.
Honestly, my initial knee jerk reaction was roughly the same… but then my skeptical nature took over :P
At this point, I’m just convinced that labor won’t actually be taken seriously in the US until and unless one or more major”economic pillar” unions (e.g. teamsters - best of luck to the writers and actors guilds, but they’re not immediately crucial to our economic system, to be blunt) go on an extended nationwide strike, with all that that entails.