If you were referring to me, I want to say that I'm not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 89d (1 reply)

He’s not saying that you shouldn’t unionize

He’s just saying that while it’s good, it’s not really a revolution so ideally you shouldn’t stop there

TheOctonaut@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 89d

Nobody said stop there?

CarpalTunnelButt@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 89d (5 replies)

Revolution should be normal.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 89d (4 replies)

This probably seems like it makes sense when you're a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.

CarpalTunnelButt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 89d (3 replies)

I'm in my 40s and have come to realize that the unions that are worth a damn are the ones that exercise the strike on a regular basis. Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized as it is in other countries.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 88d

Yeah, those are the ones that feed the Union corporation. Its people getting rich all the way down, the angle is just different.

Fizz@lemmy.nz · -1 pts · 88d

No those unions are dogshit. The best ones work with thr company and get a deal everyone is happy with.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · -2 pts · 89d

Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

db2@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 90d

They're revolting either way, it's just a question of definition.

themoken@startrek.website · 5 pts · 90d

Damn right.

halfapage@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 90d

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mandolrain@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 89d (3 replies)

hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 28 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Stop humanising him.

mandolrain@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 89d

I should have posted the one where he has bright green eyes and looks more like a lizard, which he is

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 88d

Wrong color shirt

antonim@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 89d

flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data Extraction Factory'

Well, they do want to work at 'the User Data Extraction Factory' at least 🙄

sompreno@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 89d

Revolt and switch to vim

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 88d

Irony escapes them.

arin@lemmy.world · -16 pts · 89d (3 replies)

I worked in IT 10 years ago, everything was tracked, idk what the big deal is, company owned equipment with company owned security/audit logging software, quite standard. Only difference is they will try to train AI with really wasteful keystroke/mouse tracking now??? no big deal.

spitfire@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 89d (2 replies)

I have worked in IT for 15 years, and no - the level of surveillance is not the same everywhere.

arin@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 89d (1 reply)

Not 15 years ago but during/after covid it really started tracking harder

spitfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 89d

Probably in some, not all companies. Depends on who you have worked for

Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology — flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data ​Extraction Factory'

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Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology — flyers ask if they want to work at 'the Employee Data Extraction Factory'