• Vidar_biigfoot@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    The mail service isn’t refusing to deliver, the workers are. The mail service is just not allowed to replace those workers. The workers are free to refuse to service, it is in connection to a valid strike after all.

    Yes the system is based on a truce between the employer and the employee. This is a truce that was effectively started in the 1930s after a couple of Union disputes ended with corpses (because the government was called in which lead to the military shooting striking workers). After that debacle both the employers and the employees decided they didn’t want government involvement in dealings in between them. To achieve this they must find common ground and work together. That is the foundation of the system.

    It’s all based on mutual understanding that everyone wants the companies to succeed. It’s not an exploitative extortion racket by the unions. IF Metal has even been accused of being to soft in the recent past not negotiating strongly enough and getting worse deals than they could have. What is important in the system is that consensus on what rules we are to operate under is achieved. Something tesla refuses to agree to. Thus they break the truce that’s almost 100 years old. Then they do something that hasn’t been concidered proper for a equally long time long time (hire scabs and strike breakers). The does not take well to this refusal to sit at the table like adults. And thus the conflict has no other option but to escalate.

    And the unions have far more friends to call in. Thus like toysrus before it is get out or sign.