Yeah I got some great responses to this 😄 didn’t realize it was so popular here!

I might have to setup a smash gaming session sometime in the future

I’m aware of this practice and have posted about it regarding the recent NFLPA scandals. As far as I’m aware this isn’t the case here.

It angers me because those folks fought hard to win those concessions. They were out there for a week in 100 degree weather, sun blazing down, no shade, no water, picketing. Dealing with reactionaries, Karen’s, and their management. Their management wouldn’t even negotiate at first, but due to the workers pressure was forced to come to the table.

Labor organizing is a very rare thing in this country. I’ve worked plenty of shit jobs and never even came close to unionization in any of them. For them to both organize, strike like they did, AND win is something that the left should be praising/encouraging.

Instead this ‘Anti-Capitalist Pro Workers Rights journalist’ wants to do the exact opposite.

-First they try to fool the reader by mixing up three different strikes/labor negotiations into one as if they’re the same thing (they are not).

-Then they try to make it seem like the union wanted to rush negotiations so they could have them go back in for the 4th. Wrong, they were picketing on the 4th, through slight of hand the writer mixes up different situations as the same to fool the reader.

-Not to mention the wreckless speculation taken as fact and the ‘anonymous source’ issue I’ve talked about already.

-Lastly the writer wants to poo-poo even modest wage gains. Like of course they should get more, but that’s going to take a lot more struggle and time. Does the writer think these corporations are spineless cowards that’ll just cave into all demands? Absolutely not the workers are going to have to force out concessions a penny at a time. It’s idealistic to think otherwise.

Labor unions themselves won’t get us across the finish line. However with the flaccid, unorganized, weak state of the western left we need to take what we can get. These workers risked a lot doing this, through sacrifice and collective struggle got a win for workers rights. Any self-respecting leftist should platform these things as a victory and should be encouraging more of this in the future.

Bull fucking shit. An anonymous single worker’s post on social media holds as much weight as a Radio Free Asia anonymous source, in other words next to worthless. This article is pure speculation and anonymous sources all the way down. Straight up ‘unions are bad kids don’t you dare try to organize’ dogshit. The workers on the ground I have contact with have said the exact opposite of this articles claims. I question the integrity of everyone who had anything to do with the writing or sharing of this trash.

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