#scabbing

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[racefortheironthrone]

If management finds a way to automate jobs during a strike, is that scabbing?

Peripherally.

The automation itself is more part of the general category of management strategies to restructure workflow and production methods in order to reduce the need for, and thus the power of, labor. This dates back to the origins of Taylorism itself in the 1890s as an effort to “steal the brains from underneath the cap of labor” and through to the emergence of Human Relations and Industrial Psychology in the early 20th century as a means to better control workers. So I think you could see in as essentially equivalent to classic speed-up and stretch-out efforts to maintain production at as low a cost as possible during a strike, and thus break the union.

However, the dirty truth of automation is that there is no clean way to fully substitute machinery for labor. Due to the inherent limitations of technology at any stage of development, you need labor to repair and maintain and monitor automated systems, you need labor to install and operate the machines, you need labor to design and program and manufacture the machines. (This is one reason why the job-killing predictions around automation often fall flat, because the supposedly superior new technology often requires a significant increase in human labor to service the new technology when it breaks. For example, this is why automation in fast food has proven to be so difficult and partial than expected: it turns out that self-checkout machines are actually very expensive to operate in terms of skilled manpower.) And to the extent that a given automation contract or project is being undertaken during a strike in order to break that strike, that’s absolutely scabbing.

[pyrosex]

This Kinich VA drama is so stupid dude, SO MUCH could have been avoided

Also “I’m so glad I never played in English/This is why I hate English dubs/All English VAs suck” Ok do you want an award? Don’t generalize the industry based on the actions of some

[the-cimmerians]

In an Instagram post published this weekend, Barrymore announced that her daytime talk show would return soon, in spite of the ongoing WGA strike. She also appeared to be somewhat confused about how strikes work and what is and is not helpful to do during one.

She wrote:

I made a choice to walk away from the MTV, film and television awards because I was the host and it had a direct conflict with what the strike was dealing with which was studios, streamers, film, and television. It was also in the first week of the strike and so I did what I thought was the appropriate thing at the time to stand in solidarity with the writers.

Well, yes. That was, in fact, the appropriate thing to do, but not just because it was the “first week of the strike.” That is not how strikes work. You don’t just do a gesture of support at the very beginning, call it a day and then go about your business, crisscrossing whatever picket lines you want.

And to be clear, our talk show actually wrapped on April 20th so we never had to shut down the show. However, I am also making the choice to come back for the first time in this strike for our show, that may have my name on it but this is bigger than just me.

Yes, it is, which is why she should support the strike and not be a big ol’ scab. She’s clearly suggesting that the reason she is doing this is for the crew members on the show, but those crew members are union workers themselves. They belong to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), which only narrowly averted its own strike recently. It doesn’t help them to cross the picket line, because weakening strikes in this way affects their ability to successfully negotiate their own contracts going forward.

I own this choice.

Just because you say you “own” something doesn’t mean you’re doing the right thing.

We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind.

No, you’re not, because the show itself is struck, which means that by doing the show, you are very specifically not in compliance. If she were in compliance, her writers would not be out today picketing outside of where her show films, chanting “Hey Drew, hey Drew, we expect better from you”.

[mag150cul-de-sac]

hello this is a PSA if you’re mad about the writers’ strike delaying your favorite shows or are a writer scabbing, I hate you and everything you stand for also I will block you

[cryptablog]

Worried that Marks team wont be greenlit to show their work because of corridor stirkes scabbing. Mark wouldnt scab but his team doesnt deserve to suffer because of the vfx guys. They need to get their shit together NOW. Too many people are striking for people like corridor crew to try and fuck it up with their new focus in ai animation. Kill yourself.

[alienssstufff]

Etho Scar neck kisses I sat up from my bed so quickly

[racefortheironthrone]

There was a classic Simpsons episode where Springfield Elementary teachers went on strike, and the PTA responded by bringing in residents (including Marge Simpson) as replacement teachers. Would this count as union busting or crossing the picket line? If yes, I wonder why it was depicted as largely benevolent considering that Simpsons writers and plots tend to lean liberal.

Let's not mince words, it's 100% scabbing. It's not just crossing a picket line as a customer, it's crossing a picket line in order to work as non-union temporary labor, with the intent to crush the strike.

I don't agree that it's depicted as benevolent behavior - the whole gag of the middle portion of the episode is that the scabs are terrible fucking teachers. Frink is completely wasted in preschool and doesn't let the kids play with toys, Jasper is a physically abusive idiot who gets his beard stuck in a pencil sharpener, and Moe and the like are total pushovers when it comes to Bart's pranks. The only one who can manage a classroom at all is Marge, and even then she's incredibly embarrassing and unprofessional with Bart. (Notable difference compared to how she does in "Whacking Day.")

Also, it's not necessarily the case that Simpsons writers are always left-leaning. John Swartzwelder is notoriously incredibly conservative and his scripts tended to push his libertarian views pretty strongly.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

And every time I see this completely wrong take and it hasn't been corrected, I will show up

This isn't scabbing. Tumblr is not a part of the striking unions so promoting a struck production is not scabbing. The actual striking workers have asked people to KEEP WATCHING STRUCK PRODUCTIONS TO SHOW THE STUDIOS THAT YOU WANT THE WORK DONE BY THE STRIKING WORKERS.

What Tumblr did with this ad campaign was annoying. But being annoying isn't scabbing and misrepresenting that it is hurts the fucking workers who are striking.

The unions have a shit ton of info on their websites explaining all of this. Fucking read it before you go around making wild claims that could be harmful to workers.

tl;dr TUMBLR ISN'T SCABBING YOU JUST WANT TO BE ANNOYED AND MORALLY SUPERIOR AT THE SAME TIME

I love opening up this website first thing like the morning paper and immediately seeing multiple posts like "how to get rid of the evil clown on the dashboard". like oh is this what we're doing today

[greelin]

whyyyyy can’t i pick at my skin. not picking at my skin should be as rewarding as picking. where is my reward chemical

[xxacidrain39xx]

triple emo… tremo if you will

[pinecavity]

Caleb is a good man.

At least, that’s what he tells himself, as he washes the blood from his knuckles in the academy’s communal bathroom. His reflection stares back at him, hollow-eyed and exhausted, water running pink down the drain.

He is a good man. 

Because good men don’t just sit there and listen when other pilots talk about their younger sisters like that. Good men don’t turn the other cheek when someone speaks about her with filth coating their tongue, testing, just to see how deep the rumors run. Good men don’t let their hands shake with the urge to do worse.

Good men do something.

So Caleb did.

His knuckles throb where they connected with bone. He flexes his fingers under the cold water, watches as the bloom of red swirls and fades, disappearing down the drain like it was never there.

He tried. He really did. The first few weeks, it was easy enough to ignore. The rumors were just noise, empty words from guys with too much time on their hands. He told himself they didn’t matter. As long as you wouldn’t hear them. As long as they wouldn’t touch you.

But they crept back in anyway, curling under his skin like smoke, thick and suffocating.

He sat there nursing his drink, jaw tight, hands curled into his lap as the other pilots ran their mouths. He’s used to their talk by now—the crude, restless way they pick things apart, looking for cheap entertainment, something to ruin just because they can. 

But then they said your name.

"She’s cute, though, right? You’ve seen the pictures.”

A sharp laugh. Someone knocking back a shot.

“Bet she’s reaal close to you, huh? Real attached. She follow you around like that back home, Caleb? All doe-eyed, waiting for a pat on the head?"

He knew where it was going before the words even landed.

"That sweet little face… heard she’s a real whore for you under that shy act. Bet she calls you big brother reeal innocently, huh? Wouldn’t blame you if—"

His restraint snapped so fast he barely remembered standing. One moment, he was gripping his glass so hard he thought it might shatter, and the next—

The guy’s head snapped sideways with the force of his fist. A sickening crunch, the scrape of a chair legs skidding back, and then the sharp intake of breath from the others as the laughter died.

Caleb didn’t say a word. Just stood there, fist still clenched, chest rising and falling steady and slow. He could’ve done worse. He wanted to do worse. But he was a good man. And good men knew when to stop.

So he did.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hello Madam. Sorry Madam.

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[radicalgraff]

"Cops are killers"

Sticker seen in Vancouver

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canadian commercial actors say American actors are crossing the border and the picket line in the middle of a major US entertainment industry strike and filling the jobs of Canadian actors who have been locked out for over a year.

Thousands of unionized commercial actors in Canada have been locked out since April 2022 while The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has been negotiating with commercial agencies to try and get a fair deal.

Now, as a result of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA actors and WGA writers strikes that have shut down TV and film productions in the United States, some Hollywood actors have travelled north of the border in search of non-union commercial work in Canada.

“Over the last year there’s been a lot of American commercials shooting up in Canada doing everything non union because they can walk around it,” one ACTRA member who requested to be anonymous told PressProgress. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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