James Nestlé reports on examples of his passion for running at work. This article was first published through Organizing Work.
Marianne Garneau’s point in her article “Great movements and sabotage of the personnel movement” regarding the glorification of the “general strike” through left-wing characters is very well interpreted by an employee of the left-wing structure like me (Local 1 IUEC, International Union of Elevator builders). I have found myself walking away from the advice of some leftists to proclaim large-scale general strikes. I regularly ask myself, “Who is this user talking to?”Other than that I don’t know of any member who can quote a left-wing figure in the media, I don’t know of any single employees who really need to go on strike!However, I know staff who need bigger situations in the jobs they have lately.
All my friends are part of the running class. That’s how I get the most out of my new local unions, because a component of the giant strikes, the small trade union movements don’t succeed in the mainstream press. Garneau says there are virtually no actions of the paint shops. position inside the paintings in those days, in fact not as there was at the top of the paintings, although some public sectors have had to take direct action outside the doors of the strikes, as they have long been robbed of their strike rights from their basket of tactics.
NYC MTA (Local ATU 100) staff use strict protection policies in their contracts to slow down public transportation services. Deceleration motions for MTA staff come with bus drivers locating faults in their bus just before the scheduled date to leave the depot, which then wish to be repaired without delay through the depot mechanics. Similarly, sanitation personnel in New York are lately with their slowdown tactic of staying in one direction for the full 8 hours of a shift without completing all of the day’s responsibilities, leaving extra paints for the next shift, a reaction in chain of backup responsibilities at hand. – to combat the placement of black boxes on your trucks. These black boxes will increase knowledge about the pictorial behavior of the San-men, and the concern is that the city control will use this knowledge to replace the paintings as they know them. We’ve all heard how knowledge mining has affected execution situations for Amazon staff, and NYCDS in fact doesn’t want its members to pee in bottles to paint more efficiently.
When I asked a sanitation officer how the slowdown was going, he replied that “Teamsters Local 831 wins,” before a quick look back in which he said they regularly have to give up anything to win whatever they’re fighting for. However, misleading was his quick enthusiasm when he spoke of the struggle for rights using direct action.
Direct in restoration
Nothing is more terrifying, more exciting, more stimulating and exhilarating than meeting with some of your colleagues to defy management orders. I live for this shit! In fact, my arm’s hair bristled as I read Garneau’s article. Before my years of structure, I worked in the food industry, an industry full of injustices. There have been times when, together with other workers, I have had to take direct action. to replace with my intellectual aptitude intact.
Such an opportunity took place at Easter, anyone who has worked in restaurants knows that holidays are the most busy, successful and chaotic days to be at work; as workers, we are at the forefront of families enjoying their vacations together, reminding us how we personally miss the holidays of our own families. Given the sacrifices we make to serve others, a double team at Easter has never been a day when my compatriots in the kitchen and I had to act to protect ourselves from unfair race conditions.
The dining room had 1200 seats, that is, 1200 seats reserved to dine with us for twelve hours. I intended to be the sender of the kitchen all day, essentially me the user who would coordinate the kitchen with the waiting / reception staff. He advised the owner, who was also the general manager, that we would not be able to make appointments and that whoever was occupying the tables would have to change seats so that the kitchen had time to prepare between seats.
Greed was given to our ceo’s eldest and was done with other people at a fast pace, while taking walk-in consumers. I saw how the influx of orders had begun to drown the kitchen staff; We may not be left awake. We did our best, but I might see physical exhaustion and frustration start to build up on my team. I went out to communicate with the general manager, but he essentially told me to lift the straps from my boots. I didn’t fit well, so I knew I had to get the CEO’s attention in some other way.
I went back to the kitchen where my team had begun to point out their anger to me, it was justified as it was meant to be the guy standing between the front of the space and the back of the space, and I ran aground next to me. team. I couldn’t stand the constant strain and barrage of purchase orders that roared at our point of sale [point of sale] point-of-service printer.
I made a decision that was enough and shouted in the kitchen, “MORE ORDERS!I knew that a waiter, upon learning that he was preventing orders, would stop by and notify the general manager. I explained to my kitchen brigade that General Manager would probably be walking through the swinging doors of our kitchen from one moment to the next, but I didn’t care. One party joked about saying something like “What are you going to do, this is life?”That’s when the cook on the grill looked at me seriously and said, “I think it’s time for fifteen kitchens. “I wanted to say that we all deserve to take a fifteen-minute break, and we all knew what would make the restaurant faint in combination; we would have finished control for that short period of time. With the blessing of the grill cook (he was the OG of the kitchen), the total line came out the back door to sit as orders continued to pile up. I felt like I came out of that back door.
We won this holiday. I am not saying that we have done away with all running-related injustices in the service sector, yet we have erased our own well-being, and that counts!The owner ran through this door and discovered that his kitchen was empty. time, the kitchen wasn’t even his, it belonged to us. He apologized profusely after we explained what we were finishing and promised that the rest of the day would be greater. He even showed up to take us all for a drink afterwards. the owner was only doing this out of desperation for our return, but it didn’t matter. This day was long after our action, however, I am sure that, even more vital than getting a greater change experience, no one will ever do it. when we take our destiny into our own hands.
Direct action in industry
My most recent stock in the office was a few months ago at a structure site in White Plains. The GC (general contractor) and their company they were going to hire started checking us for COVID twice a week after the hoist operator failed to show up for the paintings, which turned out to be due to the death from COVID-19. We had no problems with the check itself, however, the factor arose when the GC started applying for our insurance cards. The corporate sought to transfer its monetary duty to the staff and explained that it was only transience and that we would be reimbursed, blah, blah, blah. We had a chat between the 6 of us (IUEC – elevator builders) and saw that ibew (electricians) and pipe installers were also crowded. Naturally, we approach them and begin to discuss our options: do we give up or do we give up?The IBEW does not to paints, and of course we accept. We walked to the GC office, asked him to come out and told him to take a walk (the electricians literally said “f*ck off”).
Since IUEC and IBE are such strong unions and are also an integral component of the operation of half-finished buildings, we seamlessly gained what we were fighting for It is vital to note that not all trades felt confident in their ability to cope with the GC by worrying about wasting their skills to feed their families. On the one hand, I felt smart and empowered to have resisted developers who make fun of the humanity of the staff, but on the other hand, I felt bad because other jobs in The Same Place As Us didn’t feel safe enough to express ourselves. The question of whether I just spoke to some of those concerned staff members and replaced their collective perspectives comes to mind. it had yielded to our requests, but we clearly told everyone who asked us how we wouldn’t give our insurance cards for anything the developer had to pay for.
Workers’ empowerment collective
What makes this kind of force flowing through our veins is giving us strength for the next time. If you are like me, you begin to look for evils that want to be repaired; you start fighting for your rights and implo you implo everyone you enjoyed to do the same. Aside from seeing what your own hands have created, there is nothing more rewarding for me in a place of structure than exercising what little strength I have. The dictatorial economic formula under which we live absorbs the strength of the ordinary class, so when we gain strength, even for a short period of time, it is difficult to do so.
I think it’s because of this explanation of why staff education is so derisory or non-existent in capitalist countries. Collective memories of employee empowerment and takeover movements that directly reject the employer’s elegance can spread like wildfire. , beyond and present, of the staff who oppose their employers, tells me that I too can act. After all, I identify with the staff everywhere. In fact, there is an identity crisis within the ordinary elegance of capitalist countries. For too long, we’ve been fed the stories of CEOs and wealthy “innovators” without the stories of the staff those CEOs find themselves in to get to where they are. There are too many staff members who have a dream of emerging above their elegance without realizing that it would mean going over the overworked bodies of their friends and family. Acting can have the effect of erasing this notion, but acting while reporting other ongoing moves. they have the effect of imbuing our consciousness with elegance as a whole.
I recently read articles about woolworth women in Chicago and how they combined emotion and collective power. In the e-book Three Strikes, Dana Frank explains how those striking women formed an “entertainment committee” for various “impromptu performances” and even organized for the musicians union to perform evening performances that kept the morale of the strikers in the cooking pot. -how an environment of struggle for workers’ rights was created. I can’t think of anything harder than that: laughing while exercising on one’s own destiny. I laugh saying no to the boss, and every time I do, my skin gets thicker, similar to the calluses on my hands that remind me of what elegance I belong to.
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