Union busting is a real and legal thing. This isn’t it. You promoting these lies harms people trying to unionize.
Because the term means real things that can be legally fought against. If you misuse the term and teach others to misuse it, it’s is more likely that other people will react incorrectly to challenges faced.
An easy way to undermine a movement is to look at people who are saying factually incorrect things to make their point and say “see? They don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t listen to them”. And boom you’ve now made it easier to convince anyone on the fence to side against you.
It’s a really easy and common divide and conquer strategy.
If you want to help people while firing them up, then feed them the real information about union busting and how companies are actually doing it.
Technically the point of the strike is to force the business to compromise.
It being disruptive literally benefits nobody, but the ball is in the business’ court to end it.
These were historically the alternatives to more severe actions required by Labor to force fair conditions of work.
With some exceptions. I’ve heard of bus drivers striking by still driving, but telling passengers not to pay. Same costs with no profits make for a good strike.
Only in Japan.
Doubt we can see it happening anywhere else because I can see in America, they can call that theft and a fireable offense. Can’t retaliate without a union either. And can’t be sued because the framing is still “stealing”, which the court system LOVE defending corps when the small guy steals.
At first, it may look like its the fault of the people striking, but when you really think about it, they wouldn’t have to strike if they were paid fairly and have a safe work environment, so any issues caused by a strike is really just the employer’s fault.
TLDR: Blame their employers, not the people going on strike.
This is the rule for any strike, anywhere, in any industry. When people take a stand instead of taking a paycheck, it means their situation was literally unworkable.
There’s never been a strike where management was in the right.
When we had nurses strikes in the U.K. a year or two ago, people were saying “they should be doing it for the love of nursing, not money”. Fucking infuriating attitude.
There was a strike at my supermarket a few months ago, and some Nextdoor Karens’ went:
“During the start of the school season?!”
Like it’s not supposed to be CONVENIENT.
