Even back in the height of union power (such as it was), were there sympathy strikes across diverse occupations? Maybe the SAG/AFTRA strikes, but the Teamsters (for instance) didn't strike when the Air Traffic Controllers were fired.

People in this country have been brainwashed to mistrust unions, and to not work together. I remember a Flintstones cartoon showing union craftsmen to be lazy and greedy. I'm sure there are other examples.

union to go on a sympathy strike, or for general strikes to occur.

Wall Street got that down real good.

I need to hit the history books again. Maybe after I read "Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America" by Joan Walsh and Nick Hanauer.

Because if enough unions do it, what are they gonna do? Arrest them all? (We do have enough prisons to hold such a massive arresting, but the logistics of actually doing this would be impossible. They would negotiate. But, we won't do it.)

make laws like this is that there are a lot of us and very few of them. It is just their raw greed that is outsized.

Unfortunately indivuals just can't seem to recognize the need to support each other if it might involve a little personal sacrifice.

That is 'effort' and 'sacrifice'. We don't do either anymore, it seems.

You get fired.

Taft-Hartley removes the legal protections for striking workers. I imagine quite a number of employers would welcome the chance to fire as many union members as possible if this were to happen.

Sympathy strikes did happen. Made illegal in the 1920s, when Labour came to power post WW2, secondary action was made legal again. Until Thatcher -1980 and 1990 laws outlawed it.

Back to the USA... under Taft-Hartley, secondary action remains largely unlawful. That's probably why the Teamsters didn't strike when the air traffic controllers did so.

When the UW Madison TAs struck in the early 80s the strike ended when the teamsters wouldn't deliver the liquid nitrogen to cool the experiments. It may have only been because the TAs were teamsters too.

brought this on yourself. If the Tesla sub hadn't decided to stiff-arm the union mechanics in the first place ...

Union Maid

wanting a living wage. What a fucking piece of shit motherfucking prick.

Suck it up, asshole.

it's time to tell these wealthy "job creators" where they can shove their hostile anti-worker policies. It's time for trickle up from working people.

"They're coming to steal your jobs" doesn't work so well during labor shortage. "Nobody wants to work anymore".

I lobbied my local IBEW union to walk out in support of the air traffic controllers during the Raygun debacle. Had all the union workers supported them then we would be looking a very different labor picture today in this country. IMHO.

That would have struck a chord.

are sticking toether and respecing each other's right to fair treatment and spoiling his cash flow and are telling him to go to hell when he orders them to go back to work.

This is your first lesson in who holds the real power in this world, El;on.

I think "you guys could stop the strike now" Negotiate!

when a boss is an arrogant asshole who thinks he doesn't have to negotiate with nobodies.

He won by what some newspapers said, it that true?