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They are acting like organized labor! And all strikes are aimed at individual companies.
by gamache 3y ago
They are acting like organized labor! And all strikes are aimed at individual companies.
- throwawa14223 3y agoIt's a cartel shaking down a company, if that's organized labor it should be illegal.
- cyberax 3y agoOK. What if a company wants to close a plant, because it's not profitable enough? It's also an organized (corporate) action, so it must be disallowed?
- throwawa14223 3y agoOne of those is a business decision about what to do with their private property the other is an external actor demanding what you do with your private property.
- JCWasmx86 3y agoOne is a business decision, the other one is people exercising their rights.
- throwawa14223 3y agoPeople don't have rights over others private property that's the of the basis of human rights.
- JCWasmx86 3y agoYes, but people still have the right to say "Pay us $X and ensure safe working conditions or we strike" Tesla can either withdraw or negotiate. Nobody's right is infringed here, it's just free market. Especially as usually the workers have it worse than companies.
- gingersnap 3y agoThe company control their private property. The labour can only control their own labour, so they choose to use that control. How is that not in their right?
- throwawa14223 3y agoI totally agree, they all have the right to not work there, but they don't really have a right to prevent others from delivering packages to a building.
- cyberax 3y agoNobody is preventing that. Other workers _voluntarily_ refuse to provide their services to Tesla.
- cyberax 3y ago> People don't have rights over others private property Have the workers looted Tesla's plants? Are they burning down Tesla cars in transit? No? Then fuck off. Workers are simply negotiating for a fair price for THEIR private property - the labor services that they provide.
- cyberax 3y ago> the other is an external actor demanding what you do with your private property. And why is that bad? You've just described a negotiation between two private parties. In any negotiation, parties try to get their counterparty to do something with their property. Workers are negotiating with the company about the sale of private property that they possess (aka "labor services"). Of course, workers can also organize together, it's simply an exercise in free speech. Heck, it's as libertarian as it can be.