NationStates Jolt Archive

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If I and my fellow workers want to take the day off to protest or counter-protest, we have choices;

a. take a vacation day.
b. take a personal day.
c. take a sick day.
d. take a day without pay.

If to many people wanted off the company can refuse and if you don't show up for work they can fire you and replace you with someone else. So why are these meat packing plants shutting down? :mad:

Maybe we should protest the shutdown and not buy any meat for several weeks.

The right to strike is a fundamental right here. So, :p. Go immigrants!

The right to strike is a fundamental right here. So, :p. Go immigrants!

They do have a right to strike, but why is the plant closing down? And what about those that want to work that day, don't they have any "fundamental rights" to earn money and feed their family. This is not a Union thing you know, it is a social protest, not covered by union contracts.

They do have a right to strike, but why is the plant closing down? And what about those that want to work that day, don't they have any "fundamental rights" to earn money and feed their family. This is not a Union thing you know, it is a social protest, not covered by union contracts.

If so many of the factory's employees are going to be absent, they may just not be able to function without them, hence the closing. Or, and this is a crazy proposition, they're showing solidarity with their employees! Kooky notion, I know...

If so many of the factory's employees are going to be absent, they may just not be able to function without them, hence the closing. Or, and this is a crazy proposition, they're showing solidarity with their employees! Kooky notion, I know...

I think they are showing solidarity because a lot of their workers are low paid illegal immigrants and the companies don't want to piss them off. They are allowing themselves to be intimidated. :mad:

There are much better reasons to cut down your meat intake.

I think they are showing solidarity because a lot of their workers are low paid illegal immigrants and the companies don't want to piss them off. They are allowing themselves to be intimidated. :mad:

Or they like their low wage slaves, and know they're not gonna get USians to do the work anyway. Or, they're just being *gasp* decent.

There are much better reasons to cut down your meat intake.
Nahhhh. Hairless monkey likes the flaming pigmeat. It soft on teeth like fruit. Eat, eat.

Hairless monkey likes the flaming pigmeat.

Hairless? :(

they are only shutting down for one day. I thought you were saying "closing down" as in for good - which wouldn't bother me one bit :D

Hairless? :(
Hairless. Unlike Silverback or Ringtailed simian cousins.

Monkey like the seared boar-flesh, yum-yum good.

Hairless.

Not even a little chest hair, or fuzziness on the forearms?

Not even a little chest hair, or fuzziness on the forearms?
Too much time spent too close to fire-pit of delightful burning pigmeat leaves Monkey hairless, yipe-yipe-yipe. Except on wigglestick.

Too much time spent too close to fire-pit of delightful burning pigmeat leaves Monkey hairless, yipe-yipe-yipe. Except on wigglestick.

:(

I guess the wigglestick will have to do. Better be a frickin' bush...

Or they like their low wage slaves, and know they're not gonna get USians to do the work anyway. Or, they're just being *gasp* decent.

I know of a case in Alabama where an American citizen was fired because she sick and they hired a low wage illegal it replace her. Keep wages low at all cost and we can raise profits. I am all for capitalism, but not for usery of the workers.

I know of a case in Alabama where an American citizen was fired because she sick and they hired a low wage illegal it replace her.

That sucks wherever it happens and whomever they replace her with.

Keep wages low at all cost and we can raise profits. I am all for capitalism, but not for usery of the workers.

Unrestricted capitalism easily becomes just that.

If to many people wanted off the company can refuse and if you don't show up for work they can fire you and replace you with someone else. So why are these meat packing plants shutting down? :mad:
Recognition of reality?

If the workforce is not going to be around that day, what's the point of staying open? They would be wasting their money keeping their lights on and running the machinery, and the management would be wasting their time having no employees to manage.

It's a bit like how schools and even some businesses close for a day when a snowstorm shuts the roads. Why waste money when the situation is beyond your control? Just accept it and reopen the next day.

Or, and this is a crazy proposition, they're showing solidarity with their employees! Kooky notion, I know...

it's not exactly solidarity, but this issue is driving a huge fucking wedge into the always shaky republican coalition here. the bosses want things to stay as is (for the cheap, easily exploitable and ruthlessly exploited, labor), but the fascists hate darkies and ferriners.

the bosses think the fascists are stupid, and even worse, are aiming to hurt their profits and possibly even send them to jail over it. pow! suddenly we've got companies and business associations and chambers of commerce supporting and even endorsing immigrant rights rallies and one-day strikes (to avoid threatened week-long walkouts, if nothing else).

once the nativist panderers in congress back down on the whole felony with mandatory minimums thing, i expect business support for the immigrant rights movement to dry up entirely. nobody likes empowered workers. well, nobody who would rather exploit them anyway.