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RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 1 month agoyou can dictate anything about the behavior of your company that you and your fellow workers feel sufficiently passionate about enough to fight for.
no! That’s not how unions work in capitalism. A union can’t decide the business side of things. There’s a clear separation of responsibilities. There are, of course, other types of societies in which workers have this power, by then there’s not really a point in debating the role of the union in that case.
There is no economic incentive to innovate when unions don’t have the power to make executives think about choosing other less difficult paths than trying to directly reduce the quality of life of the companies employees.
Union-lead society wide innovation for the sake of the current workforce is probably the dumbest thing i’ve read in a while.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ahahahaha right, I love how you just accept the legally defined rights of what a union can do and what it can as if those laws in any given country aren’t just a record of the battlefield between the working class and the ruling class. A union can do whatever the fuck a union wants to do, and the law will attempt to constrain it in favor of the ruling class and capitalists. Sometimes it will be successful, sometimes it will fail, but unions fundamentally exist outside of capitalism because they have a level of legitimacy that capitalism and the idea of owning other people’s labor will never have.
high five solidarity my friend, even when you are an asshole
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry, i wasn’t aware you were advocating for Anarcho-syndicalism. I thought we were having a conversation about the current situation. Good luck with your revolution
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thank you!
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Hey bud, if you cant imagine a world without [oppression] please step aside. The rest of us have work to do to end the violence. We know it’s time.
RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I cannot imagine a world without oppression, this is true. However, I grew up long ago in a world where oppression came from those who said they’d overthrow it last time. They were using the same ideas you flaunt around and much like you (or whomever the person I was talking to before was), they had superficial understanding of what they were advocating for.