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Are you talking about passenger rail strikes or freight? Because in the States, we have no meaningful passenger rail, but our geographical area is SO enormous that freight rail is critical. It makes up like 40% of all freight transport. So shutting the entire thing down would have been more than an inconvenience. It could have cost a lot of other people in other industries their jobs. Also, it could have caused shortages of food, gasoline, chemicals for purifying water, etc.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/looming-rail-strike-would-take-a-major-toll-on-u-s-economy

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3644798-how-bad-would-a-rail-strike-have-been/

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There are bunch of people here who think revolution is an inherently beneficial goal in and of itself, which is crazy. Here I am at work unionizing, explaining to my colleagues that the goal is NOT to strike. That strike is a last resort only if the corporation refuses to give us our critical demands (in our case, safe nurse-to-patient ratios). That we only strike when we reach the point where we all know we’d quit these jobs anyway because we feel like we can’t keep our patients safe.

No, the GOAL of a union is COLLECTIVE BARGAINING POWER, kids. The right to strike is a last, desperate resort

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Oh man, use the kbin.social web app. It’s good. The only Boost functionality that I really really missed was the ability to hide read posts.

It looks like kbin.social isn’t supported as an instance on Boost for Lemmy? So I just signed up on startrek.website with my same kbin.social username so I could check it out, and so far it’s great

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These people are so fucking selfish. You were hired as a public servant, you should serve the people who elected you

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Yes but one of the primary ways corporations are making money these days is by not hiring enough workers and not paying current workers 3x the salary even though they’re expected to do the work of 3 people. So in that way, her salary IS directly tied to exploiting the workers

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Good. Force these people to do their fucking jobs

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Hmm…I wonder why it happened so late? I’m sure it couldn’t be that they were completely restricted from being able to access those services earlier in the pregnancy when it would have been better, easier, and safer. I’m sure they just overlooked those conveniently available, necessary medical abortion services that are so easy to find in Oklahoma.

Wait…

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(I’m really referring to times since the modernization of stock valuation since the other comment refers to technical financial data like EPS.)

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I’m not sure I understand your point here. Yes, Andrew Carnegie made money by exploiting workers. That’s why that period of time saw the birth of the American labor movement. Which is also why these workers are going on strike.

I’m glad you agree with me?

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