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Individual polite requests would likely have been denied without the firing. However, the group participated in collective action, which many employers simply c
by empthought 10y ago
Individual polite requests would likely have been denied without the firing. However, the group participated in collective action, which many employers simply cannot tolerate, whether it's about dress codes, compensation, working conditions, or anything else.
- masklinn 10y ago> which many employers simply cannot tolerate They certainly can, they just don't want to.
- empthought 10y agoNo, in the long run they can't, because if they do the very concept of "employer" falls to anarchosyndicalism.
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- k__ 10y agoyou mean "simply will not tolerate" if companies fear the actions of their employees, why hire them in the first place. Sounds like an abusive relationship to me
- notacoward 10y ago> However, the group participated in collective action That's the key. The actual issue at hand probably didn't matter as much as the fact that the lowest of the low had figured out how to work together outside the official hierarchy. That made it a threat not to policy, not even to the people who could have simply said yes or no, but to the hierarchy itself. What happens when you attack the hierarchy? Scorched earth, baby. Yes, it was a bit entitled of the interns to expect a change in the dress code. A simple "no" would have sufficed if that were the real issue, but it wasn't.