Tag: ooc

((gonna sign off for now and try to get some sleep. I have work tomorrow. I’ll check and see if anything’s developed with my brother’s friend then… I really do hope that things are alright and I hope he’s talking to someone, or will be soon.

((just got back from a call regarding a suicide scare. We happened to live nearby where we thought our friend was… but he’d moved before tonight so we weren’t sure where he was.

But the family says police are at his current house and they’re trying to confirm if he’s there. His car is, so that points to yes…

I dunno if I’ll be in a position to post updates until much later. This person to me is a ‘friend of a friend’ so I’m not very close in his network at all.

Again, police are involved now so they should have a better shot at figuring it out than me.

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

not giving your money to a business that’s currently striking is an essential part of a strike.

Amazon normally brings in over 34 BILLION dollars every day. The loss of even one day’s profits could mean massive leverage for the strikers – especially when the boycott coincides with what is usually one of Amazon’s busiest days of the year, their Prime deals day.

Do not visit Amazon.com between the 10th and 17th of July 2018!

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a
picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs
explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of
people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public
interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from
entering the business they were striking against.

When
workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to
step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A
picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement
of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the
strike.

“Never cross a picket line” is something union and
other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both
“never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”

Amazon will likely
hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the
slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block
access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important
to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during
the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.

Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.