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Some would say this is the killer-app of gig platforms - the picket lines and scabs are almost invisible, and workers are completely disconnected from each othe
by opportune 8y ago
Some would say this is the killer-app of gig platforms - the picket lines and scabs are almost invisible, and workers are completely disconnected from each other unless they seek each other out. Makes organization and striking very hard
- tajen 8y agoHonest question: Is there any upside to the organization of strikes? I’m from France and what I see is mostly people in a position of blackmailing society do strike. To the question of whether it improves working conditions, it seems as if it improved them, but at the expense of 1. underrepresented colleagues and 2. the taxpayer. If underrepresented colleagues (whom I used to be part of before I quit) are any meaningful part, then the results of strikes are at the expense of the majority of society. It’s great that I have 7.5 weeks of holidays, but they are also mandatory... so much that a net salary for an engineer is 2000€ net pm. It’s like... a joke. “Everyone is poor” is France, compared to other countries I’ve lived in with fewer taxes and friction. Strikes, more than ever, seem to be the imposition on weaker workers of the force of stronger workers. The benefits of the strikes are taken at the expense of all workers. It doesn’t improve the economy and adds friction, slowing down the economy. And what the new economy brings to me is so much more reliability of services, since they’re not on strike every second day or shut down at 3.30pm every first day. I like the no-strike economy, because I see what people suffer through in the strike economy. Besides, parties who organize strikes also organize to shut down free speech events, so strike isn’t compatible with free speech. Is the fact that Uber doesn’t have strikes a pure bonus of the platform?