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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The federal labor board employees should strike.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Frankly...everyone should strike.

[–] recursive_recursion 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

that and/or vote during the elections

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do both. Voting is the BARE MINIMUM every citizen should be doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I will be voting the liberals out.

I will not be voting conservative because I’m not stupid, though I can still be an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What would happen if they chose to strike anyways? It's not like the labour board can just... replace everybody in any meaningful timeframe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

If labour in Canada toughens up like they did during the CUPE strike, they'll fucking win.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why even have a union if you're just gonna fold like soggy tortillas?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When the feds nuke your union's power what are you gonna do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Stand up to the fed and make them follow through, I guess. Optics wouldn't be great for the incumbent government.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Tell them to kick rocks and strike anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is it that Canada always copies us? First the US govt puts down a rail strike, then Canada does it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The difference being that Biden, after ending the strike, actually worked through the federal agencies to get the strikers the deal they'd been looking for (not to mention directing the NLRB to come down so hard on union busting that Amazon, Starbucks and a few others are trying to sue the agency out of existence).

What's happening in Canada is actually worse, crazy as that sounds.

Honestly, I'd love to see the rail workers take a cue from CUPE and just strike anyway.