Posted on 10/17/2021 5:19:40 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Labor flexes its muscle as leverage tips from employers to workers
New York Workers are saying enough is enough. And many of them are either hitting the picket lines or quitting their jobs as a result. The changing dynamics of the US labor market, which has put employees rather than employers in the driver's seat in a way not seen for decades, is allowing unions to flex their muscle.
Already on strike are 10,000 workers at John Deere (DE), who hit the picket lines early Thursday after rejecting a tentative deal which would have improved wages and benefits. They joined 1,400 strikers at Kellogg (K) who are upset with seven-day work weeks and a two-tier retirement system. Other unions are preparing for walkouts of their own. The overwhelming majority of strikers and potential strikers are doing so for the first time in their careers. Many say they are driven not just by wages or benefits. They say they are striking, or planning to strike, in a bid to do their jobs the way they believe they should be done, and to gain basic improvements in the quality of their lives, such as time with their families, which they say they deserve. One of the main issues running through many of these strikes, or looming strikes, is workers' anger. "My nurses and health care professionals are angry," said Elizabeth Hawkins, the negotiator for a union of 32,000 nurses which could soon be striking 14 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Southern California and Hawaii run by health care giant Kaiser Permanente.
And pilots from American Airlines (AAL) are set to hold informational pickets at the Miami airport on Tuesday, followed by pickets in Chicago and Dallas the following two weeks.
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There is something called “work to rule” and slow walk it.
cnn is using “work conditions” as a proxy for the “vaccine”. The more the jab is pushed the more I don’t think it’s good for us.
CNN will always be a hot steaming pile of dog doo. They are more than happy to carry the water for the great reset
This is XiNN.
The best thing to happen recently is the death of the terrorist labor leader Richard Trumka
America became a better place when he died
When your paymaster is the Deep State, and as long as you kill your conscience, its easy.
If this were Europe circa 1930s, CNN would be putting out stories about how happy the concentration camp residents are with their circumstances, and to question otherwise makes one a domestic terrorist.
No worries, Robert Reichhhhhhhh, there are plenty of illegal aliens to take their place. That’s the plan, right?
Absolutely!
Workers aren’t getting to force jabs on their employers, so as long as employers can force them on the workers, I’d say the employers have the (evil) upper hand.
This is more then about worker condition or pay. I think it goes much deeper.
Americans are angry over many things but can not express that anger without fear of being called racist, sexist, homophobe, or even domestic terrorist.
The left have successfully locked down the safety valve that people need to express their anger and so it is being re-directed at their employers.
The left are getting the revolution they have dreamed of but I don’t think it will turn out the way they planned.
Americans are fighting for their nation in the only way they gain - they are going GALT.
Of course, CNN will work overtime to see that any discontentment is channeled in a communist direction.
Please learn about Pseudologia Fantastica
We're dealing with brain damaged, mental cases.
This predates the mandate and reflects workers' re-evaluation of their lives after the Covid shutdown.
That should be common wisdom sir considering the sources of those pushing this thing and the excoriation they try to shove on those refusing.
Orwell would suggest a blind man could see it.
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