franchises open and close stores on a whim all the time, they also fire people for no reason all the time, 99% of employees don’t last a year at any of these corporate mega chains. I don’t see them fighting tooth and nail I see them continuing on with business as usual, while posting record profits
I’m far more interested in the ongoing railroad strikes in the US, hardly ever hear a word about them, if I didn’t go out of my way to google it every now and then I wouldn’t even know it’s going on. Granted it’s in the US so its not a real union, or a real strike those are highly illegal, and considered an act of treason, but its interesting to watch. Especially considering how much the transportation industry is being automated, driverless trucks, hyperloops, at home deliveries skyrocketing etc
Sure, railroad strikes have much more potential, but it all adds up in my opinion. As I said earlier, I think the key part is that workers are recognizing the need to organize and act collectively. Every such effort should be encouraged, and when these efforts are misguided then efforts should be made to help steer people in the right direction.
I call it cheerleaderism, your intentions are all that matter, you’re on our team so we just say “rah rah sis boom bah goooo ummm… checks notes the starbucks corporate union rah!”
this is what I mean by cheerleaderism, either for or against, either we say, yay starbucks union or boo starbucks union, and no critical analysis is ever made, nothing is learned. its as if the outcome is based on positivity, and that if we can shield the fragile starbucks babies from any and all criticism they’ll grow up to be big and strong.
“just support them” as if me having positive or negative thoughts about them in my head, by myself in my house will effect anyone’s life. I think it comes from the internet, so its not surprising to see these strange unions-by-tweet where it’s just random people who work for the same megacorp just saying “let’s a do a union like in the movies woohoo” and then kind of do some union like stuff at maybe 5 stores and then nothing happens and the union dissolves a few years later. It’s like a new trendy hashtag. I imagine any real union activist or leader who approaches them, would be greeted with boos immediately as he would not be all totes mcgoats super supportive right off the bat, and say every little thing they did was awesome and special and wonderful and how great they all are for breathing air and drinking water
franchises open and close stores on a whim all the time, they also fire people for no reason all the time, 99% of employees don’t last a year at any of these corporate mega chains. I don’t see them fighting tooth and nail I see them continuing on with business as usual, while posting record profits
I guess we see things differently here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m far more interested in the ongoing railroad strikes in the US, hardly ever hear a word about them, if I didn’t go out of my way to google it every now and then I wouldn’t even know it’s going on. Granted it’s in the US so its not a real union, or a real strike those are highly illegal, and considered an act of treason, but its interesting to watch. Especially considering how much the transportation industry is being automated, driverless trucks, hyperloops, at home deliveries skyrocketing etc
Sure, railroad strikes have much more potential, but it all adds up in my opinion. As I said earlier, I think the key part is that workers are recognizing the need to organize and act collectively. Every such effort should be encouraged, and when these efforts are misguided then efforts should be made to help steer people in the right direction.
I call it cheerleaderism, your intentions are all that matter, you’re on our team so we just say “rah rah sis boom bah goooo ummm… checks notes the starbucks corporate union rah!”
As I said, people need to be educated. This is literally why the concept of the vanguard party exists.
what is to be learned from “rah rah sis boom bah”?
I’ve explained my point above several times already, I don’t see the point of repeating myself.
this is what I mean by cheerleaderism, either for or against, either we say, yay starbucks union or boo starbucks union, and no critical analysis is ever made, nothing is learned. its as if the outcome is based on positivity, and that if we can shield the fragile starbucks babies from any and all criticism they’ll grow up to be big and strong.
“just support them” as if me having positive or negative thoughts about them in my head, by myself in my house will effect anyone’s life. I think it comes from the internet, so its not surprising to see these strange unions-by-tweet where it’s just random people who work for the same megacorp just saying “let’s a do a union like in the movies woohoo” and then kind of do some union like stuff at maybe 5 stores and then nothing happens and the union dissolves a few years later. It’s like a new trendy hashtag. I imagine any real union activist or leader who approaches them, would be greeted with boos immediately as he would not be all totes mcgoats super supportive right off the bat, and say every little thing they did was awesome and special and wonderful and how great they all are for breathing air and drinking water