It really is, because it comes with the underlying one-dimensional view of the entire situation. There’s an entire underground economy that exists because of the unfair labor practices. But you don’t want to talk about that.
I absolutely want to talk about it. Let’s talk about it.
EDIT, in the spirit of actually talking about it:
In the North American context, in the US but also in Canada, one of the largest existing unions that organizes hospitality workers is UNITE HERE. They have done some pretty awesome strikes and mobilizations the last decade. There is a long history of hospitality union organizing that was, you know what’s coming, crushed by the red scare. Of course another thing to mention is the unionization of Starbucks, where the IWW played an important role. Overall, yea, the service sector in North America is a very important sector in the fight to reassert the rights of the working class.
In the European context, I don’t know much beyond my own home country. I know for example that there was just on Wednesday a massive strike, fighting back against for example the egregious 13 hour day that the government has imposed, but more importantly at the complete arbitrariness that the workers are subjected to as the fucking conservatives are turning a blind eye to employer law breaking. I would love to hear more about how the working class is organizing across the EU. For example, there is an article by La Strada but I would love to know more.
Basically, in Europe and in North America, and of course beyond the West, the working class everywhere is being squeezed also in the hospitality sector. We need to be organizing, casting aside silly divisions and organizing within the framework of internationalist solidarity. My point is that the meme tries to turn a class problem into facile euro-smugness score pointing, leaving untouched the fact that it’s the same capitalist exploitation with American and European characteristics respectively.
in Europe and in North America, and of course beyond the West, the working class everywhere is being squeezed
In the West? Just look what happens beyond the West … in China, for example, there’s a 996 working culture, and the only union that is allowed ‘acts’ under the command of the Chinese Communist Party. And these are by far not the only problems of China’s working class.
Russia? No better there …
There’s a lot room for improvement in the West, but your framing of the problem and your attempt to limit the issue of abusive labour conditions to the West has nothing to do with reality as the problems are much bigger in autocratic states.
It really is, because it comes with the underlying one-dimensional view of the entire situation. There’s an entire underground economy that exists because of the unfair labor practices. But you don’t want to talk about that.
I absolutely want to talk about it. Let’s talk about it.
EDIT, in the spirit of actually talking about it:
In the North American context, in the US but also in Canada, one of the largest existing unions that organizes hospitality workers is UNITE HERE. They have done some pretty awesome strikes and mobilizations the last decade. There is a long history of hospitality union organizing that was, you know what’s coming, crushed by the red scare. Of course another thing to mention is the unionization of Starbucks, where the IWW played an important role. Overall, yea, the service sector in North America is a very important sector in the fight to reassert the rights of the working class.
In the European context, I don’t know much beyond my own home country. I know for example that there was just on Wednesday a massive strike, fighting back against for example the egregious 13 hour day that the government has imposed, but more importantly at the complete arbitrariness that the workers are subjected to as the fucking conservatives are turning a blind eye to employer law breaking. I would love to hear more about how the working class is organizing across the EU. For example, there is an article by La Strada but I would love to know more.
Basically, in Europe and in North America, and of course beyond the West, the working class everywhere is being squeezed also in the hospitality sector. We need to be organizing, casting aside silly divisions and organizing within the framework of internationalist solidarity. My point is that the meme tries to turn a class problem into facile euro-smugness score pointing, leaving untouched the fact that it’s the same capitalist exploitation with American and European characteristics respectively.
In the West? Just look what happens beyond the West … in China, for example, there’s a 996 working culture, and the only union that is allowed ‘acts’ under the command of the Chinese Communist Party. And these are by far not the only problems of China’s working class.
Russia? No better there …
There’s a lot room for improvement in the West, but your framing of the problem and your attempt to limit the issue of abusive labour conditions to the West has nothing to do with reality as the problems are much bigger in autocratic states.
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