Andrew Sage
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I only know that they were like in the stores because one of them came to the co-op by mistake instead of 57th street and was like, Oh, I'm one of the new hires.
Oh, and so it's unclear if those are the seasonal workers or if those are new hires.
those those were event those were the seasonal workers at the store the other day like i worked yeah one of those chicago humanities events with them and it is like yeah then they just changed the the qualification of who can be in the union yeah it's been very intentional and it's been just like over and over they revisit and yep reclassify and whittle us down yeah yeah
Well, and I think that's one of the benefits to just like a campaign in the broad sense of continuing direct actions during negotiations is it is that chance to connect with your coworkers and re-solidify that you're fighting for something intentional in the face of the fact that you will probably start being scheduled more directly.
sparsely you will have fewer opportunities during the workday to talk to people and like that's just stuff that's going to happen while negotiations go on but like making sure that you stay in touch with your union as best you can and like show up for all the direct things that you can helps you internally combat that which is really helpful
And I mean, like, you know, like I said, like we ran into organizing here was we spent like, I think it was two years bargaining for our contract.
And they didn't have the capacity to literally force half the workforce to quit.
But like, oh, don't worry, they don't have the capacity to lose this many people.
And they are like how few people they have.
This whole thing is just like a really, really common managerial tactic.
Which is just like, we're going to make everything unlivable and try to get as many people as we can to quit and then just make everyone else's lives a living hell.
Which is like, this is, I think I've said this before, but it's like the extent to which the strategy is just the deliberate infliction of terror.
Well, and the strategy is just tank your business, which seems incredibly counterintuitive from their perspective.