• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    I guess it’s a poor choice of words but there’s definite value in workplace camaraderie. Don’t let your jadedness fuel the bosses’ union busting.

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      52 minutes ago

      Unions haven’t got anything to do with it. Unions are about protecting you from unfair business practises, it’s not a social club, nor do they try to be.

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        34 minutes ago

        No union without social interaction to found and preserve it. It’s why small businesses are much worse at ganging up on big businesses that exploit them than workers are at ganging up on bosses: Businesses aren’t people, they don’t have social interactions. Workers are and do, thus unions can and do form.

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      13 hours ago

      Unions aren’t community.

      They’re a necessary defence mechanism against capitalism.

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        12 hours ago

        Humour is a defence mechanism. Altruism is a defence mechanism. And with those two, camaraderie is a given.

        Also it would be a sorry state of affairs if workers under capitalism had their defence mechanisms, but not canalisation workers shovelling literal shit.