• NixDev@programming.dev
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      I have worked in the auto industry for years and you are 100% correct. If you are white collar you basically get hammered with “UAW = bad”. Talk of joining the UAW or starting a union is severely frowned upon. Before the last round of layoffs there was a lot of talk about forming a union. Haven’t heard from those people since. Most were let go for poor performance or just left. Seems like management was able to squash the white collar union talk, well until shit like this comes up

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        It’s almost like trying to create racial identities for workers. Same techniques of splitting the workers up and setting them against each other but applied to a specifically workplace environment.

        • charlie [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I’m amazed every day at how my place of employment has even managed to pit shifts against each other. Second shift absolutely hates first shift, first shift talks mad shit about second, third shift hates them both equally and first and second both equally hate third shift. You’re all in the same union!

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      Also a good way to kill a few of them. No that’s not a joke or a dig, forklifts are dangerous and you need a license and proper training to operate them.

      Which miiiight also suggest that “blue collar” labour is also deserving of same level of regard and compensation as “white collar” labour, orrrr maybe we should all stand as a united front as just workers with no distinction between what kind of work to fight our exploiters, but that would be ridiculous amirite?