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I had a chance to visit Norway recently, and this was something that a tour guide impressed upon us about the culture; she gave an example of a restaurant in to
by shadowgovt 4y ago
I had a chance to visit Norway recently, and this was something that a tour guide impressed upon us about the culture; she gave an example of a restaurant in town that was caught skimming pay, and it wasn't just a union representing restaurant workers they heard from; they found themselves unable to find someone to repair plumbing or their storefront (the plumbers and glaziers wouldn't work with them), and their ingredient supply chain suffered (truck drivers told them to make their own 3AM trip to stock up).
- neon_electro 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
- HPsquared 4y agoAnd its complement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
- whimsicalism 4y agoThis also happens in the US, it just isn't reported on heavily by the media. When the dining workers at my university in the US were campaigning for a contract, teamsters blocked most truck deliveries to the university
- yamtaddle 4y agoLabor action generally is barely reported on in the US. You have to go to far-left media like Democracy Now to hear about most of it. People who don't seek that out could be forgiven for thinking unions in the US almost never do anything at all.
- whimsicalism 4y agoIt's worth noting also that this sort of "secondary strike" approach is explicitly illegal in the United States.
- aidenn0 4y agoWhile that does occasionally happen in the US as well, it's illegal (both general strikes and sympathy strikes were banned by Taft-Hartley).