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[timbllr]

What dreams may come by elsa bleda

[compulsive]

[nervios0]

puedes besarme o hablarme de tus canciones favoritas, lo que quieras

[outlawknup]

[sitoutside]

[tratame-suavement3]

Quiero tomar, tirar y viajar

[rcah]

[oceano-de-letras]

“¿Y si estamos juntos sin que nos duela?”

— Thomás.

[ofendidox-deactivated20190730]

Me gusta el coqueteo en las conversaciones

[poto-pelao-deactivated20220921]

Meterme a la cama contigo

Y no salir nunca más

[a--z--u--l]

Busca a alguien con quien te apetezca hablar tanto como coger.

[ahegaokin-princess]

[t-rance]

Los domingos deberian ser días de cucharita

[ochenteras]

⠀ ⠀⠀⠀f l o r e c e

⠀⠀⠀⠀y⠀ r e n a c e.

[cocainesocialist]

Striking Workers Are Bringing Back 1970s 'Mindfuck' Tactics

Trade unions are looking to the past for inspiration in how to mess with their exploitative employers.

The 23rd of January was meant to be another strike day at the Ministry of Justice. Just like the day before, an anti-strike workforce of cleaners, receptionists and security guards had been brought in to keep the building running. Early in the morning, Purma and the other strikers turned up to form a picket line. But then, all at once, they walked inside to do their jobs like normal. Rather than continuing the protest, the workers had secretly coordinated to go back to work a day early.

The unexpected non-strike meant that all the outsourced staff turned up for work and needed to get paid, and so did the anti-strike scab workforce. Someone was going to have to pay a double wage bill.

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Deliveroo and UberEats riders, however, are masters of the mindfuck. Because they’re technically self-employed, the laws on strike action and trade unions don’t apply to them. That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window. Instead, these workers can just do what makes sense to them. The result has been an explosion in militancy, as the platforms try to cut their workers’ already-low wages. Strikes are now breaking out every couple of weeks with little or no prior notice. They’re organised through complex networks of encrypted messenger chats which are completely invisible to platform bosses, meaning that all their standard management techniques need to be rewritten.

[afloweroutofstone]

There’s this interesting dynamic in which, as the traditional contract between labor unions and businesses has been weakened (through anti-union laws and court cases, the rise of contracting, and other shifts in the labor force), labor has actually regained a sense of militancy and activity that was previously kept under control by that relationship. The Janus v. AFSCME case, disasterous for public sector unions in the most direct sense, has pushed teachers unions into doing massive membership drives where they’ve successfully converted a lot of non-member due payers into members, leaving them stronger than they were in the first place.

[ultroid2068]

would appreciate if anyone has more resources on these kinda organized tactics

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

In general I would recommend checking Notes From Below, maybe issue 4.1 in particular: https://notesfrombelow.org This might also be relevant: https://newsyndicalist.org/2019/02/15/manchester-deliveroo-strike/

[toxicalert]

@toxicalert

[catchinglettersinmymemory]

Quiero tener tu sonrisa a centímetros de mi boca, pero ya, justo ahora.

Me encantas.