#Capitalism wants you to speed up.
Bosses are always keen to exploit the fastest worker until the wage-slave gets injured & disposable.
Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well. ["Mark Twain," "Advice to Young People," 1882]
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That’s why I Sleep
On Company time.
Today's card is 7 of Pentacles
Sometimes it feels as if everything is on hold, and there's nothing we can do to speed things up. But don't give up, the wait will be worthwhile.
https://seqldiww.org/a-workers-guide-to-direct-action/
#WorkToRule #WhistleBlowing (open mouth) #Solidarity #SitdownStrike #SickIn #Sabotage #GoSlow #GoodworkStrike #DualPower (ignore the Boss) #DirectAction
#workingclasshistory #iww
Direct action is any form of activity that cripples the boss’ ability to make a profit and makes him/her cave in to the workers’ demands. The best known form of direct action is the strike, in which workers simply walk off their jobs and refuse to produce profits for the boss until they get what […]
All this rain has made Lainey slow this morning, so the shop will open a little late today. A big sorry to all the monday morning shoppers, someone should be in by 1 and there till 5.
#mondaystart #goslow #thriftstore #ottawasfinest #bankstreet
Make Amazon Pay.
When the Polish warehouses were opened, German workers were on #strike, and the Amazon moved orders from German warehouses to Polish warehouses, forcing people Polish to work #longershifts.
When Polish workers heard about the reason why they had to work longer shifts, they said, hey we don’t want to be scabs, and organized a #goslow. That was the beginning of our cooperation with German workers.
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was-illegally-fired-by-amazon-for-speaking-out-about-a-coworkers-death
When Amazon worker Magda Malinowska spoke out about a coworker’s death at a warehouse in Poland, Amazon fired her. Now a court has ruled that Amazon committed illegal union busting. Malinowska tells Jacobin why Amazon is so afraid of its workers organizing.
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