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This is exactly what we've been conditioned to be. We can't even bother to do the most basic of tasks to put up an actual fight against the constant upward growth of the billionaire class, but we think we're so strong that nobody would mess with us. We think that showing up to a protest with a sign is fighting back because we think we're intimidating enough to scare people into following our orders, but really we're a tiny dog yapping at an intruder who doesn't even care enough to shut it up.
We were raised specifically to have so much confidence in ourselves that we continue thinking that we would fight back - and win handily - if we ever needed to, while ignoring all the little things we could be doing, since there's no point in doing them if we'll win the fight when it comes to that, but also ignoring the fact that the fight should've started years ago.
Violence is the only tool that works, we used to take managers out of their houses and beat them to get our point across. We need a return to that form, where if we have grievances with the company or the manager we don't go to HR, we organize.
The organizers still have to go to HR in the end. Union contracts need to be continually renegotiated and they can't actually make the employer do anything.
The employer will reconsider that attitude if the union decides to leverage their power and announce a work stoppage until demands are met. People tend to listen when the entire company freezes in its tracks and annual revenue is suddenly on the line.
No, you force the top to negotiate, you don't negotiate with underlings. You tell the boss to his face this is what we need.
"The boss" stares back at you with a blank expression and has no idea WTF you're talking about. Moreover, they don't care. Unless you have money or a sale for them, you can just keep on walking.
CEOs couldn't manage to fill out a comment card anyway, never mind negotiate a union contract without a CFO and HR there to actually know what's going on.
If I had a nickel for every time people tried to go up the chain thinking they're clever only have to get kicked back down it again (after waiting longer, by the way) to people who actually know what they're talking about, I could probably stop working and stop having to deal with them.
I'll be real with you, if the top doesn't know nor care about their workers, they're exactly the type we should be exercising from management.
Edit: Also don't to me blabbing about how busy they are. We've already seen past that veil, they're usually busy raping kids, figuring out ways to screw workers and/or customers, and just being part of the mad men's club. Apathy of your workers is a sure sign of a shit boss who doesn't care.