- cross-posted to:
- iwwunion
- unions@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- iwwunion
- unions@sh.itjust.works
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One of my coworkers voluntarily worked through the weekend, and convinced a more junior member of the team to do so, too. I was like, why? So we can hit our schedule? How does that help you? Like, ok, sure, you have some small amount of equity because we’re extremely white collar but is that stack of lotto tickets worth giving so much up?
He was also talking about hiring contractors to get more developers without paying as much. Among other objections, I asked “Do you think hiring contractors is a union busting move?” And he blinked and said he hadn’t really thought about it, and doesn’t really know much about unions. I refrained from saying “You should read up on them during the weekend you have because of unions.”
But software as an industry is kind of politically iffy. Lots of rugged individuals in the mix.
I have tried so hard to get my co-workers in software to unionize, but they all have a combination of apathy or contempt for the idea as somehow being beneath them.
What’s important to note here is the Armed Forces are not friends of the working class anymore than the police. “Support our troops” bullshit is as anti-worker and anti-labor as “Back the blue” bullshit.
Easssssssy paratrooper. No need to make assumptions on behalf of others. One can attempt, in youthful foolishness, to serve the ideals of the nation, and end up twenty years later just as disenfranchised with the thing as you. E-4 in the military, who is the majority of the armed forces, is very very much poverty level working man too.
Right. Which means those who’ve joined the military in the past should at best be viewed with pity as victims of a con. Treating them as any kind of heroes for signing on with a strike breaking brigade as class traitors only glamorizes the military and perpetuates the con. The way to dispel that notion is to place a stigma upon it by viewing it socially as what it really is.
Vets aren’t heroes. They’re underpaid scabs who’ve been duped by a lie.
Sad thing that a huge chunk become brainwashed into far right bullshit
We really need to raise worker power. Only then can we say “cowabunga it is.”
