Anybody ever go on strike?

[STDiva]

Sounds like a **** time. Can't wait.

Discuss.

 

[gunslingingbird]

I've been picketing a time or six before. It sucks when things get to that point, but it's really the last step the working class has when trying to get improvements in the work place.

 

[bahodeme]

Not the actual place I worked. I've gone to other local unions and divisions to picket. There were other unions when they would strike, we honored their picket lines.

 

[xfire]

When I was a member of the IAM we narrowly avoided a strike. I remember sitting up in the labor hall until midnight waiting to hear whether or not we were taking up picket signs. Yeah, that was a bit tense.

 

[Chopper3000]

Nope I'm not that stupid.

 

[Mayhem]

Unfortunately in my industry, there's no chance of a strike doing anything but giving someone else work. A shame, really.

 

[LucyOHara]

I refused to blow my ex until he stopped ashing his cigs in the ******** glasses.

Does that count?

 

[Chopper3000]

I refused to blow my ex until he stopped ashing his cigs in the ******** glasses.

Does that count?

My ex girlfriend did that... she was the one that flicked ash into a glass. She did not last long in my life. About 5 minutes.

 

[BCT]

Yeah, I'd like to go on one right about now.

 

[Deepcover]

Yeah, I'd like to go on one right about now.

Uh-oh that sounds like a freeones strike. Picket, picket!

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

I refused to blow my ex until he stopped ashing his cigs in the ******** glasses.

Does that count?

Oh my head.......

 

[wottle]

I was on a picket line twice but it was so long ago, before the "right to work" bullshit started.
Not much comparison to today's labor situation. a UAW sub union in the late 70's. In Michigan.
As I remember we drank a lot of **** and cursed every car that did not honk in support of our cause.

If you have to go out now.. is right,don't know what to say except to quote John Lennon saying
"Power to the People" and good luck

p.s. what's up with "Right to Work" law passing the Michigan Legislature. WTF.

 

[lurkingdirk]

When I was a young teenager I worked at the supermarket A&P. You had to be part of the union to work there, I didn't care. When they went on strike, I was a scab. I was 15 and I hated everyone I worked with, and only had the job to get money. They paid double-time to anyone willing to break the strike and work, and the strike went on for ages. As soon as it was over, I got a job at a hardware store, and told the union to kiss the east end of a west-bound *****. Made a lot of money.

So...I was supposed to be on strike, but I refused. It was fun getting yelled at, and having to have police around when I came in for and left a shift.

 

[288gto]

I refused to blow my ex until he stopped ashing his cigs in the ******** glasses.

Does that count?

too extreme!

 

[Jeep!]

Never been on one, always respected the process though.

 

[test]

Been on 2 myself. I stayed home for both. A third time was possible but strikes were ****** before it could happen. Now my job title is being contracted out by the end of this year.

 

[D-rock]

Heh, No, where I'm at unions have pretty much disappeared, after they were gutted of any real power over the decades. Not to mention there needs to be jobs for people to go on strike in the first place, and there are no big employers here anymore. Not to mention the few people that hire around here really do have their employees by the balls as bad as things have gotten economically. Not to mention I live in an area that's people are pretty gutless and don't stand up for themselves. Not to mention until recently it seemed where I lived had some of the greatest proportion of poor republicans outside of the south, and they actually believed the drivel their party feed them. That is until it got so bad even they had to admit how sucky things are.

 

[vodkazvictim]

No.
It's morally wrong to go on strike.
However abusive your employer is you must accept this for the greater good of the capitalist system in which we live.
If an employer treats you like **** and you can no longer put up with it you must take action only as an individual rather than uniting with colleagues to take action for the greater good of the workforce.

 

[gunslingingbird]

No.
It's morally wrong to go on strike.
However abusive your employer is you must accept this for the greater good of the capitalist system in which we live.
If an employer treats you like **** and you can no longer put up with it you must take action only as an individual rather than uniting with colleagues to take action for the greater good of the workforce.

Sieg heil, mein Führer!