this is grossly misrepresenting
yall posting on a redditor website
the “left” in the United States completely failed to leverage this and only capitulated to the establishment on this front only signifies how weak and useless left-wing movements are in this country.
Actually its revolutionary to support our brave PMC allies who heroically work to deny healthcare to disabled people
I think this is the actual reason the right opposes the vaccine. Because they know if this was free, why not everything?
Labor unions generally oppose vaccine mandates because their job is to stand up for all workers - even anti-vax workers - regardless of whether it’s right or wrong.
That being said, vaccine mandates are not the reason why there is a strike wave right now. To suggest that these workers are striking against vaccines is a right-wing, pro-capitalist talking point.
Vaccine mandates are good and there is absolutely no intelligent left-wing case against them.
Richard Wolff needs to get vaccinated against :brainworms:
By this anti-mandate logic the union endangers 99% of their membership at work so their 1% chud members can “freely” spew COVID out of their commemorative maga kazoos during lunch hour.
Letting the soft handed professional class run central offices was a mistake.
Isn’t this like defending workers who don’t want to follow OSHA regulations or something?
They are just making the work environment more dangerous for everyone else.
OSHA are regulations the company has to follow for the most part, worker training is part of that, but the standards of safety are being put on the workplace not individual workers.
Vaccine requirements are the same as requiring things such as PPE for workers.
I don’t think it’s because of mandates. It’s a tight labor market and quits and strikes are more likely to happen when labor is hard to come by. Have any of the John Deere union leaders cited vaccines? Kellogg’s? No, they cite poor working conditions and low wages at a time of record profits.
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/10/31/is-the-strike-and-quit-wave-due-to-vaccine-mandates/
Force the vote turned into fuck the vaccine real quick huh?
@volkvulture - This site and its community is firmly against antivax disinformation. This is a final warning to drop the topic.
Extending this as a courtesy since you’ve been on the site for a while and others mentioned you were also on the sub. Any other account would have been banned already.
I’m still working through reported comments, this may shift to a full ban.
Everyone should get vaccinated. End of sentence. Arguing against vaccination is advocating for the systemic deaths of the working class and other marginalized people.
It’s okay for the government to arrest me if I refuse to wear a seatbelt while driving, but it’s bad if I lose my job because I refuse to get vaccinated during a pandemic.
I like Wolff but have been pretty suspicious of his idea that worker co-ops can peacefully revolutionize the world. Sounds like lib mischief to me!
This is like Hanlon’s razor but wrong.
Always assume people are a Fed rather than them being wrong/problematic
Hasn’t Wolff said before they were more famous the reason you organize unions and co-ops to provide breathing room for workers while letting them figure out themselves the system is impossible to change
Dunno if he said it, but it makes sense, not only from a strategic perspective, but also from a “let’s reduce human suffering” perspective.
If Unions and co-ops when done right can improve material conditions of particularly vulnerable working class individuals, provide opportunities for horizontal/democratic management structures to be created and mature, and undermine neoliberal ideology :zizek: it makes sense they should be institutions we as leftists should push forward.
