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In reply to the discussion: Strikers Have Shut Down Two Of The Most Important Economic Gateways In The World—And It's Costing Th [View all]Spike89
(1,569 posts)19. Yeah, that is the reality with strikes...there is pain
Strikes always hurt the strikers. Strikes always hurt the businesses being picketed. Strikes always have rippled-effect pain on "innocents". Fighting for justice doesn't mean sending a drone in from a comfy office. It means putting your pocketbook and more on the line to make sure the next generation is treated fairly, just like the last generation sacrificed for us.
Strikes are NOT good for individuals, almost no one involved in a strike actually benefits. Strikes are powerful because they are a sacrifice to the future and to society at large. There will always need to be strikes--business periodically needs to be reminded that workers will hurt themselves if necessary to make labor more fair for all.
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FarCenter
Dec 2012
OP
Do you know anything about the years-long struggle the Longshoremen have been having
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#16
Where would we be without our retail/service folk? Wouldn't it be interesting if WalMart's
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#7
If Hawaiians want better wages and working conditions, I suggest they suck it up! n/t
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#28
Suck it up! It's high time workers united and stared demanding to be treated right.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#25
"I'd think that anything that slows imports from the Far East would be a good thing"
Riftaxe
Dec 2012
#56
Maybe it will make some think opening up the steel plants again isn't all that crazy.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#61
Well, we know this strike is having an effect - the corporatist scabs have come out of the wordwork.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#67