• Minotaur@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Okay, so a bunch of people organize and then the boss fires all of them for doing so. That’s not exactly a perfect system leading towards better working conditions

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      7 months ago

      Who said “perfect”?

      A bunch of people organize and then the boss fires them. Then the boss has no employees to do the work. Ideally this outrages enough other employees to go on strike and in a semi-functional country it would also prompt some oversight on their practices.

      The more people organize, then harder it is to just fire them. The more publicly they organize, the harder it is to just fire them.

      If they don’t organize, the boss just gets to say what they do and for how much money, so that’s definitely not a better alternative to organizing long term in terms of “leading to better working conditions”.

      So yeah, organizing is better. Every time.

      • Minotaur@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Yeah man, but these are real people and not hypothetical worker drones in an internet comment. If they all get fired and don’t have money for food and rent, that’s really fucking bad. You can’t say “it’s always good to organize! Just take the risk of getting evicted from your apartment! Don’t let them boss you around!” And not expect the working class Joe in the factory to look at you like you’re the dumbest guy around