J WyniaDec 1, 2022
When you hear media blaming the striking rail workers for being the ones that threatened the economy, that's not a neutral reporting. The railroad companies were willing to threaten the economy because they wanted to be able to fire people for calling in sick or going to the doctor. Painting the strikers as the irresponsible ones is propaganda.
Show threadhapbtDec 2, 2022
@jwynia well until they send the national guard in to break the strike we've still technically made progress?
have we?
Show threadJ Wynia

@hapbt But, this same thing is playing out in hospitals, schools, Starbucks, Amazon warehouses, John Deere factories, potato chip factories, etc. across the country right now.

And in many cases, actually walking away means moving to a new town because there aren't that many other jobs nearby. Capitalists are using those aspects of the situations to apply leverage to keep their profits.

Dec 2, 2022 at 10:13pmWeb