Writer's Strike
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- madirish0
very good thoughts here raf, but coule of critical items need addressing, as locale might play a HUGE impact on your thoughts;
"I treat work as a deal between adults: the employer has things that he needs done, I do them for a specified amount of money on a daily basis. We have a steady contract. Simple. If I feel underpaid, I go and renegotiate or go somewhere else where they will pay me more if my work is worth it for them."
- this assumes that you are on an even keel and both sides have the same 'legal' groundwork to make this assumption from- read: corporate vs. individual structure w/in law system. in US it is far from even, it is frankly not in the same game, let along field.second, scale, population, and size of your surroundings might make this a HUGE difference as well. what if you were say, in the middle of the country and *only* outlet for you were in the ONE corp in town and to go to another (if you wanted or needed, doesn't matter) were hours away? practical? not in the least. this is the case for 85% of the labor force in the US. it has all but left major cities and what remains, is in small, rural areas outside any sort of diversified economy of scale to be able and leverage to just "go get another job elseware."
"I am not sure how it works in the US, but in EU you cannot lay off people who go on strike and sabotage your business. You have to pay them for the strike. You cannot replace them in order to keep your business running, the law allows them to terrorize you like that."
- and this way THE reason i said the EU might be a very aprpoe example as the very opposite is true in the US.
- employer CAN fire (unless union sues them AFTER the strike)
- pay while on strike? LOL
- not replace? FFS man, this is the US, you are as valuble to me until i see someone better tomorrow.in a nutshell then; corporate legal and tax structure put about 90% of advantage in the corporations favor, with nothing but time, money and resources to over come it- something the 'labor' class does not have any of, especially in the US now, or for years prior. it is a joke and really, if countries in a 'democracy' think their structure is bad from the perspective of the labor class, please come read/study even a very topical view of the US position and it will make that where you are pale in comparison. oh, and read some Marx and come back to the table- he had it correct and will always. ;)