Kat Marchán 🐈 @zkat@toot.cat
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idk, like, this seems pretty short-sighted of the businesses too.

It wasn't pretty for the workers to go up against the Pinkertons, but I'm sure the businesses were also not enjoying having their facilities literally sabotaged and strikes violently carried out and enforced against scabs.

That's the kind of extreme that things like the NLRB, in all its blandness and miquetoastness, was meant to quell. Like, the consequences for just straight-up violating the NLRA were super mild.

Shrug. This just seems like asking for trouble to me.

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Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (@xgranade@wandering.shop)

Fuck. https://prospect.org/justice/2025-08-25-federal-appellate-court-finds-nlrb-unconstitutional/

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Kat Marchán 🐈 @zkat@toot.cat
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I feel like a lot of people these days are under the impression you need "permission" to organize, to go on strikes, to have a union, etc.

But you can literally just decide to get everyone in your shop/company to walk off the job. You don't need legal permission for it. Sure, they might fire you about it, but they're gonna be real screwed if they literally have to rehire EVERYONE. This is, in fact, the kind of thing that will take down an entire company.

You have implicit power purely by virtue of joining hands. You always have.

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