Mostly it was equipment being destroyed if they destroyed everything.
The main difference isstrikes weren’t just a picket line. They would take over the factory.
If we want to get serious we need to do that again. Doesn’t even have to be workers. Imagine having hundreds of peole ascend on each Starbucks and just loitering about so no real customers can get service
The police wouldn’t be able to handle that sort of mass protest.
Picket lines were the compromise. The promises are broken so the compromise needs to go away and we need to get serious.
Talk of a general strike is too large of a leap. The media has convinced many potential allies that organized labor works. People need to get a taste of the power we actually have.
Mostly it was equipment being destroyed if they destroyed everything.
ahhhmm…no? at least, that wasn’t the point being made by the workers.
sabotaging factory equipment was a show of intent: “we are serious about causing damage. this time it’s equipment, next time it’s you!”
the factory vandalism was a threat.
if the threat was understood as being serious, and working conditions improved as a result, no further escalation was necessary. that’s why relatively few escalations happened.
however, A) escalations DID go further on quite a few occasions, and B) the threat preventing the necessity of further escalation was the entire point.
so, no, it wasn’t “myth and legend”. it worked exactly as intended.
and it worked, because of the couple of times the threat was not taken seriously. those times made it clear that the threat is real.
This is myth and legend.
Mostly it was equipment being destroyed if they destroyed everything.
The main difference isstrikes weren’t just a picket line. They would take over the factory.
If we want to get serious we need to do that again. Doesn’t even have to be workers. Imagine having hundreds of peole ascend on each Starbucks and just loitering about so no real customers can get service
The police wouldn’t be able to handle that sort of mass protest.
Picket lines were the compromise. The promises are broken so the compromise needs to go away and we need to get serious.
Talk of a general strike is too large of a leap. The media has convinced many potential allies that organized labor works. People need to get a taste of the power we actually have.
ahhhmm…no? at least, that wasn’t the point being made by the workers.
sabotaging factory equipment was a show of intent: “we are serious about causing damage. this time it’s equipment, next time it’s you!”
the factory vandalism was a threat.
if the threat was understood as being serious, and working conditions improved as a result, no further escalation was necessary. that’s why relatively few escalations happened.
however, A) escalations DID go further on quite a few occasions, and B) the threat preventing the necessity of further escalation was the entire point.
so, no, it wasn’t “myth and legend”. it worked exactly as intended.
and it worked, because of the couple of times the threat was not taken seriously. those times made it clear that the threat is real.