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I've been on the picket line for months and it cost me thousands of dollars. We didn't fold, but we had a strong union and a healthy strike fund to help keep our heads above water. Money is only one aspect of it, though. You need strong solidarity and belief in what you're doing. Thabks I'll hang up and listen.
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You also need a lot of money for a legal team for when you inevitably get hit with injunctions that limit your ability to affect the company's day to day activities in any real way
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Dec 4, 2020 15:37
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The company will limit your legal right to picket, if your country/state even has that right to begin with. Say if you set up a line at a warehouse trying to limit a truck's access, for instance. The government will almost definitely be against you. The courts will probably grant whatever relief the company wants. The police will most definitely harass you and arrest you for any number of reasons, so you'll need money to fight that too. The media will be against you and help sway public opinion. Then there are the strike-breaking companies to fight against, which the employer will hire. There's no limit to what they will pull. An organization will spend magnitudes more to break a strike than it would cost to give the workers what they're asking in the first place. It's an uphill climb in basically every aspect. That's why most of it comes down to how hard the workers themselves are willing to fight.
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Dec 4, 2020 15:44
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Applewhite posted:Do they have to picket? If they just stayed home and "put their hands in their pockets" as Bill Haywood might say, wouldn't they starve Amazon out? Never underestimate how many scabs there are willing to step on the neck of somebody else to get a good paycheck. Strike-breaking organizations have a lot of resources for that and take care of the hiring for the employer. They will probably get a bonus for crossing the picket line while the workers are at home, whether it is at signing or a premium per hour.
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Dec 4, 2020 15:48
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Applewhite posted:That's why I was thinking the strike should happen around Christmas time. There's no way they could hire enough scabs to meet the demand in time. Scabs have no families to worry about. They crawl out of the depths of Hades whenever called upon 
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Dec 4, 2020 15:51
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Applewhite posted:So there are obstacles. Let's make this year's goon project about taking down Amazon.
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