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'No Contract, No Coffee': Starbucks Workers Launch Five Days of Strikes | Common Dreams
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I don't have any horse in this race but allow me to try to radicalize strikes a bit more.
It makes good headlines having protests on the streets. But it makes protest truly destructive for companies when the strike goes inside and stays there: doors open, lights on, everything running (expense is mounting) but no work is done (no incoming revenue). This is even better when the place under strike is a public venue.
Workers can not be prevented to be on their position of employement. That is lock out, which is a different story. You have customers walk in, to a fully staffed business, to hear they will not be getting service because of an ongoing protest, kills the business and takes away the right winger line "strikers are troublemakers"(exact wording may vary) because the protest is done in an organized, calm fashion.
So add indoors protest to ongoing outdoors. Make it hurt. And be nice. Nothing triggers more the idiots than having their hate met with indifference.
Infiltrate.
Subvert.
Distort.
Destroy.
The rules instutions are built upon can be played for their downfall. The rich did that to ours; do the same to theirs.