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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Re: Labor Day
Date: 09/05/26 5:10 PM
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All the workers have to do is withhold their services. Those who deem them "labor costs" are superfluous to the business and constitute a waste of resources.

Otherwise known as a “strike”.

It may or may not be effective, depending on the ease with which strikers can be replaced by management with “strike breakers”, otherwise known as “scabs”......

Or how easily management can persuade the government to intervene on the basis of “national security”.

One thing is for sure- we are coming off of a multi-decade period in which corporate propaganda successfully turned language on its ear and turned the population, even those who worked as laborers, against organized labor.

But as the depradations become more visible, that is changing.
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