• anon6789@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    One more line of protection can’t hurt. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more momentum for workers to band together.

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      What protection? Trump is chomping at the bit to defund universities. “You can’t fire us unless you fire all of us.” Trump: “Done.”

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        I imagine the UAW has some lawyers.

        People are still fighting and winning a number of cases against the president. People were just released from CECOT, where no one was ever supposed to leave alive.

        Do you feel being unionized makes their situation any worse? They seem to feel strongly this will be of numerous advantages, as it was not even a close vote.

        We can act pessimistically and do nothing, or we can organize and protect things we care about as hard as we can. These guys are doing something. Everyone online is complaining people aren’t doing anything, but show them a group of people doing something about it, and now those same complainers still find something to complain about.

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          Lawyers enforce 1) laws and 2) Union contracts.

          1. Don’t think there’s any laws about funding universities, but you don’t need Union lawyers for that anyway. 2) There’s no union contract yet. And it wouldn’t matter for federal funding.

          Do what you can but be realistic about it.