George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Stop blaming strikes for economic damage. Strikes are a logical response to overreach and greed from corporations and the wealthy. If there is resulting economic damage, look to those who drove the workers to strike in the first instance.
Fr. Marty@georgetakei isn't economic damage the whole point of a strike?
Judy Olo 🚫⚠️kakistocracy🌊@frmarty @georgetakei
No, it is to show your value to the company. I was/am a union member. We had a strike in the 80s. The last thing on our minds was damaging the company. We just wanted them to pay decent wages and have health care.
No, it is to show your value to the company. I was/am a union member. We had a strike in the 80s. The last thing on our minds was damaging the company. We just wanted them to pay decent wages and have health care.
Jeramee@JudyOlo @frmarty @georgetakei
I come from a union family. We don't want to damage the company - that's how we make our living too.
@Jeramee @JudyOlo @georgetakei Strikes are all about economic damage - not destruction, but certainly it has to cause pain to the company to be effective, and pain is the result of economic damage. Strikes stop production, which is economic damage. When the damage exceeds the tolerable level, demands are met and the strike ends. That's why in other industries scabs are brought in - to minimize economic damage of the strike. And my father in law was union construction pipefitter for 40+ years.
@frmarty @JudyOlo @georgetakei
No. Strikes are about fairness. To call the lost profits of overly exploited people damages suffered by the owners is the inherently unfair propaganda we've been fed all our lives.
When the CEO's of these companies make hundreds of millions per year while the actual creative talent can barely survive, to call those lost profits damages is nothing short of gaslighting that we all must reject.
@Jeramee @JudyOlo @georgetakei I think we are saying the same thing but understanding the words differently. It isn't gaslighting to say that "inflicting damage on the ones doing the exploiting is completely the point". You are right, strikes are about fairness, where the exploiting org/company does not want to be fair, and must suffer pain before recognizing fairness. No pain for the company? Then no fairness for the exploited worker. I support the exploited worker, and the striking worker.
M-Democrats-BLM@Jeramee @frmarty @JudyOlo @georgetakei We have way more CEO’s now than in the beginning of my work life. And profits are WAY up. My pay and benefits are down. Every when time to sign up for insurance we get the same talking about how much they pay and how much we pay. It’s almost we pay more every year and profits go up every year. We look at like lied to again nothing new. Pay raises don’t even = insurance costs for the year.
@DemMimiBLM @Jeramee @JudyOlo @georgetakei Same for me - my day job is at a state university in the midwest.
@frmarty @DemMimiBLM @JudyOlo @georgetakei
I was in that boat back home too.
Our system is designed to cheat us.