I really hope people online aren’t getting the wrong impression of unions and that they’re flawless Things that will protect them from any and all mistreatment and that strikes are fun little treats union workers get
Unions are People not Things. Union leaders can fuck up. Unions can definitely operate in a way that gets you low wages and poor benefits if you’re not being represented well.
A union by itself does not guarantee you anything. Unions take work and money to run. You pay dues, you go to meetings, you vote. You protect each other in a union. You don’t join a union and magically have everything taken care of for you.
Strikes are a powerful tool but are scary. They’re not a goal to achieve. Unions don’t aim to go on strike during negotiations.
10 years from now someone’s going to publish a novel about two members of different bands having a secret tragic gay love affair while their bands are on tour together and they’re going to title it clandestine or some shit and we’re all going to know exactly what corner of the internet they grew up on
Leftism leaving westerners body when you ask them to do something about the Global North’s consumption of Global South’s resources
Leftism leaving westerners body when you only ask the hypothetical question about the way revolutions in the global south will cut their supply of all year long bananas and mangoes
The disabled people who can’t work at all aren’t “lucky” that they don’t have to, just like the disabled people who are forced by circumstances to work despite severe symptoms aren’t “lucky” that they can… Instead of idealizing one of two equally challenging situations, what about a little solidarity and compassion?
between tumblr being found guilty of moderating lgbtq content unequally during the 2018 ban in court and @ sorryforpartyrocking being nuked for suggesting one of tumblr staff may have investment in defending terfs to now many different trans women having their text posts and selfies being flagged as mature without the opportunity to appeal in any meaningful way (one of which was nuked herself)… it’s very. hmmmm. it’s a bad look. as if staff wasn’t already on thin ice for refusing to engage in any effective way with hate speech. “queerest space on the internet” my ass
