Unions, collective bargaining and striking were illegal, to begin with. People actually skipped work and meals to strike, form unions, and radically protest to give us these things. Before pto, unemployment insurance, and social safety nets existed.
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Fucking strike anyway. What are they gonna do?
The postal service is unable to legally strike. They struck in the 70s (?) illegally and got tons of concessions and no one went to prison for it. Seems like teachers could do something similar. We wouldn’t miss cops and, unfortunately, firefighters also wouldn’t be missed (we still love them, unlike cops).
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The ruling class forgets how the unions were the compromise to allow them to keep their heads attached to their bodies
I don't think they've forgotten. They're just confident that the culture war trap they've built will keep us busy fighting amongst ourselves.
would be a shame if EMS were slow to respond to an emergent need for medical care for one Utah governor. why did they think this was a good idea??
Wow…this is gonna make America so great…
Let the buildings burn down. Firefighters don’t have to use a union to show why the working class is the real source of power.
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Isn't that functionally banning unions altogether? Collective bargaining is the whole purpose of a union...
Not familiar with American union laws, but that's protected federally is it not? (aside from the fact that this administration isn't 'protecting' anything, let alone unions)
If we can't bargain legally I suppose we just need to remind them why they gave us a legal option for union organization in the first place.
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Correct!
The police certainly had this coming, although I now feel very bad for firefighters and teachers in Utah
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He included police unions? He's fucked. Republican voters don't give a crap about teachers or firefighters, but he messed with the cops that they vehemently pretend to support.
They originally tried to exempt police unions but were told that would be too blatantly illegal and the whole thing would be struck down, so they did this instead.
My money is the police unions will just ignore this; or even more on brand, they'll invent some new with that just means collective bargaining, but only for police.
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