No. No contract means the bosses can do whatever they like. Likewise, the workers can strike if they want.
Certain “essential” workers, like cops, firemen, nurses and railroad workers will usually have their rights to strike/etc restricted by various schemes of mandated arbitration y/o “cooling off” periods, if not outlawed completely. For cops this would be on a state-by-state basis. These schemes are all anti-worker.
As I mentioned before, the problems isn’t that cops have unions, and outlawing cop unions, besides being a human rights abuse, won’t solve any problems.
The problem is the current cop unions are yellow unions… they represent the interests of the cop bosses, not the rank-n-file cops. The reason cops aren’t held accountable is the cop bosses want it that way. Full stop. Not all cop shops are organized, not hardly. Federal cops can’t legally organize. MPs can’t legally organize. The same shit happens everywhere.
It’s starting to feel like this whole thing is fading without any real substantial change at the system level. Obviously this has been great in terms of public awareness but I’m losing hope there will be more than minor policy implications.
Best case scenario was always shifting the overton window and increased organization /solidarity among the nascent american left. You’re just not gonna dismantle a police stste with a week of demonstrations. That abolish the police is a thing that can be considered instead of laughed off is huge.
My friends were supposed to be coming to the Citrus Bowl this summer for Def Leppard, Poison, Motley Crue and Joan Jett. They were looking forward to their kind of expensive refund. Stub hub was like butnahhhh it wasn’t cancelled it was just postponed for a year so no refund lolu
There’s been some talk ITT about protest and consciousness raising shirts, and I’d just like to suggest more options. The checks/etc are in the mail/etc… and I’ll soon be in possession of some Daughter-Gear™, which fits these needs perfectly. That’s right, two of our fellow UnStuckers, @chupacabre and @microbet, have artistic daughters, and they have made these incredible shirts available to our aspiring community…
I understand this sentiment but a healthier and more egalitarian system would result from examining the privileged old age income security that favored groups have and promote dignified retirement for everyone. Racing to the bottom is not a recipe for success.
