Andrew Sage
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I heard so much eat the rich that day from zillennials.
Um, and folks are upset like they, and I think rightfully so.
And I think they're really effective for that reason, especially because people are really on our side when they talk to us.
But they're also really surprised because part of the instant recognition thing, part of the being cool with us having union buttons on the register, part of all of that is the fact that management is benefiting from that.
the illusion that they're on good terms with us and so like one of the reasons that we held that picket was to be like hey just because they are not stopping us does not mean they have done anything to improve the material conditions that we have been organizing around this whole time yeah
And also, to be incredibly clear about this, it's so obvious it has to actually directly be stated, which is that all of the things they are doing are union-busting tactics, because their strategy here is to do a recognition and then go for the second place where unions most commonly collapse, which is, once you're recognized as a bargaining unit, the second place they fail is getting the first contract, and that's what they're really obviously trying to do.
Yeah, the fact that people don't understand that they're just running a thing that like I'm trying to think of how to even describe.
It was like like that bookstore was like like it was treated as like something that was as an institution that was like part of the university.
That's like the way it was like treated culturally was this is like our thing.
And these people are running it into the ground because they don't want to pay their workers like enough money to survive.
And that's really all it comes down to when you look at what the facts on the ground are is the decisions that they are making are directly tied to the fact that they feel like they have no money, which is directly to the fact that they are paying the executive director too much, which is directly tied to the fact that they want to have an excuse to not pay us anything.
It's like, oh, wow, we don't have enough money because we're spending like one hundred sixty thousand dollars on an executive director.