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0 pointseli_gottlieb8y ago0 comments

That is really surprisingly self-sabotaging. People in labor movements don't spout slogans like, "An injury to one is an injury to all" because we're trying to moralize.

It's because when workers at one company have their salaries suppressed - by collusion in hiring, by wage theft, by death-march management - the market rate for their labor goes down overall. When any one company can abuse its workers, we all lose from that injury to the labor market we all share, as well as from the lost productivity from sub-optimal allocation of labor.

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stale20028y ago

Then these people who don't want me to sabotage their movement shouldnt force me to join.

They should leave me alone and not get in the way of the contract that is between me and my employer.

If they force me to join with BS closed shop contracts, they can expect me to explicitly and purposefully sabotage their movement in any way that I deem fit.

They do not represent me. I do not want their help. I do not want them to negotiate for me.

And hopefully these people who do not represent me will learn their lesson with regards to forcing people to join their movement, knowing that they can expect purposeful sabotage in retaliation.

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