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defineandredefine's avatar

"I wish they would learn and embrace the importance of being in a union, especially when you work in journalism. Most newspaper owners aren’t journalists, they’re business people. They will make decisions that benefit them but not necessarily ones that benefit their employees."

My wife is a travel nurse. She's been travel nursing for the last 6 years. In that time, she's been offered exorbitant contracts at hospitals whose nurses are on strike. But she won't take them because she refuses to be a scab. And this -

" When you cross a picket line, not only are you showing how much you don’t respect the strikers and their work, you’re also showing how you don’t respect yourself or your work."

Is why. She refuses to take the side of management against members of her own profession.

Thank you for bringing us this interview.

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"From what I understand, the NLRB is very understaffed and very busy, so we’re still waiting to hear back on that…"

Given that the NLRB is so understaffed it can't manage the labor situation in a country with ~10% union membership, and given that the stated goal is 100% union membership, given that this is the case under ol lunchbucket photo op joe, given that under any later republican administration & probably democratic ones it will be even more underfunded and feckless where not jammed full of actively hostile stooges, seems like people are gonna have to get themselves used to wildcat strikes, and whatever else it might take to force the bosses to the bargaining table.

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