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Unpopular opinion: Unions should not be allowed to strike during an emergency.

• yellowapple 6y ago
  Perhaps if hospitals actually gave the slightest damn about their employees' safety, said employees wouldn't feel the need to strike during an emergency?
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  The US has been in a continuous state of national emergency (usually multiple overlapping ones) since the 1970s, and that's without “during an emergency” automatically voiding labor rights. If an emergency justifies conscription, then the necessary personnel should be conscripted; if it doesn't, there is no cause to waive labor rights, which exist specifically to assure that labor is genuinely consensual and not a matter of economic coercion.