The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution

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The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution - Lemmy.world

Aren’t the teemsters about to do their solidarity thing here soon?
I thought solidarity strikes are illegal. What are they planning?
Making any strike illegal is so weird to me, like it goes against the idea of a strike in my mind. Isn’t the entire point that they don’t want you to do it, it’s the power a group of people have over the tiny elite?

I think this article puts it decently:

5) Is there such a thing as an illegal strike?

Absolutely, though a more accurate term is “unprotected.”

Basically, it’s not necessarily that workers would be criminally charged for participating in such strikes per se, but that the law doesn’t protect them from being retaliated against in other ways. For example, sit-in strikes don’t supersede property owners’ rights to have people removed for trespassing.

That said, IMO the Taft-Hartley Act’s prohibition on secondary strikes should absolutely be considered unconstitutional under the 1^st^ Amendment right to freedom of association.

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Thank you, this explanation makes the most sense to me