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> Well, right, then, this is a leftist position, but that's why I was surprised that you supported any action at all against the workers who suffered the enforc
by CPLX 1y ago
> Well, right, then, this is a leftist position, but that's why I was surprised that you supported any action at all against the workers who suffered the enforcement action. It seems to me the workers are beings scapegoated for right wing propaganda while the ownership class will continue to not suffer any consequences.
Raiding a huge multi-billion dollar project run by a globally important company, and effectively shutting down a project like this at least for awhile, is absolutely not how enforcement actions are usually done.
There's a huge distinction between doing stuff like this and picking up people trying to day day labor in Home Depot parking lots. It's unfortunate that the individual workers are the ones in handcuffs but at the end of the day if you're going to have rules that stop people from working illegally someone is going to have to be able to show up and remove people working illegally from a job site. If you rule something like that out you don't have laws at all.
Doing this to a powerful company is not normal. That's what makes this situation so unusual and interesting, and why I'm arguing in this thread against people that seem to be making knee-jerk reactions based on who's involved.