I'd like to thank everyone for my most upvoted post on lemmy ever. Not only have you upvoted it to the top for like 2 days you commented the shit out of it. I'd like to take this opportunity to say fuck the mods of this instance. This was my second post coming off a 30 day ban and I want to say these fucking mods have been nothing but bitches. I've never been more attacked on any other instance, subreddit, forum, etc. then I have been in this fucking instance. Not only have I been attacked I've been told my memes arent memey enough again and again.
I'll be honest, I do not know how to make a meme but I keep posting just to piss in these mods cheerios.
Thanks lemmy.world/politicalmemes for being the worst community I've ever been a part of.
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What a joke
We went to one. About a thousand people stood around not talking to each other and left. It was fascinating. And disheartening.
You read anxiety where it doesn’t exist, not in the way you think it does.
Standing in a street isn’t going to cut it. You can stand anywhere. That is not the motion that is required.
And if you think the landscape hasn’t changed this go: oh you sweet summer child.
American protests are the dumbest shit.
A bunch of people thinking they have done something productive because they held up a sign until their arms got tired after an hour and joined a mailing list that they might toss $5 to.
It'd be more productive to host a block party where at least everyone gets fed.
There was one in Orlando recently where they (80 people) just protested nothing and everything all at once and then they just packed up talking about how good that was.
At best it was just an excuse to go to the park.
People are comfortable even when they stress that they aren't and don't want to do anything more than tell people to stop being meanies like it does something. And are scared of what happens when we actually push back against bullies cause we haven't for decades.
Strikes work, when honored, because you’re withholding a valuable resource. In fact you’re withholding the capacity for corporate to make money. It’s a bad look for something like a hospital because people are now keenly aware of how staffing impacts the emergency room and their elective surgery post op care. Unfortunately, this act is strangled by COL and non-livable wages.
That said, the landscape has changed. The recent Utah legislation aside, look at Amazon in December. Strikes happened because corporate refused to acknowledge the union’s existence. You can vote to enter a union, which is a beautiful thing, the solidarity required alone is admirable, but if everyone ignores your existence you get Amazon in December 2024. Idk how that one ended. Probably attrition and nothing good.
Providence Health System of Oregon did the same. They technically acknowledged the nurse’s union, came to the table each negation session, but did nothing, ignored the nurses and their negotiators and left them without a contract for a year. So, all of Providence went on strike. The doctors agreed that this was egregious behavior on the part of Providence Health System, and cannot do much at work without their nurses anyway, so they added impact by joining the nurse’s strike. Simultaneous, state wide. Not as little coverage as Luigi, but not much coverage news wise. Why? This scares corporate. (Wage wise, west coast COL i is s higher and nurses wages are higher there, starting at $1650/wk days and $1900/wk nocs for a no experience nurse. This cost jumps to $7k/wk per nurse for union busting contracts. A hospital will pay this difference rather than agree to a 6-10% raise or the reintroduction of a separate sick time bank in addition to vacation time. Never underestimate the power of corporate spite.) Last check after a month of mutual attrition things aren’t great.
All of that novel aside, its incredibly naive to think it can be as simple and easy as standing in a street on your day off. For ONE day. If it were, that action would be completed already.
Providence stood spitefully by and watched for 30 days, 30days of what had to be well over a thousand contract nurses at $7k/wk each, loss off their millions on hospital and surgery money, loss of the lodestone worker that both they and doctors can do little without, 30 days of this before acknowledging a crappy negotiation they refused to acknowledge for over a year.
And that is ONE corporate entity in ONE state.
This administration is way worse. And what are you withholding from them by standing in a street for one day on your day off?
Think bigger and better or nothing will happen.