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Pardon my ignorance, but how does this even work? Like, don't they just walk off the job collectively until someone is willing to negotiate with them?
That's how unions are supposed to work. It's really the only bargaining chip workers have, at least until we can all be 100% replaced by ai and robots...
How are we doing on that front, by the way?
We're probably multiple centuries from robot labor replacing a meaningful amount of human labor.
Modern "AI" can't even run a call center, it's not replacing real jobs anytime soon, despite how egar marketing teams are to gaslight C-Suite into paying for it.
Americans are so corporatized that they mistakenly think the power of unions comes from the government
Which is pretty effective propaganda.
Union busters have spent a lot of money to make it feel that way.
And that's exactly why they're in some part right. If you have enough money to buy scabs, and protection for the scabs, the union relies on the government making that illegal.
It's the break down of the pact. At a small scale anyway - obviously the longer it goes on and the further they go with the busting attempts, the more union actions will cause ripples in other industries, and solidarity movements. They can't buy protection everywhere, and if they try, it's escalation all the way to the bloodshed that wrote the pact in the first place.
The "protection" is the government not firing people for collective bargaining or collective actions. This is similar to when Reagan fired a bunch of ATC strikers and ever since then we've had a massive shortage of ATC personnel.
Let's hope so and be vocal about our support for the union that this administration is trying to crush before our eyes.