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I think that has to be part of the discussion, education. These workers are “unskilled laborers”, and that means companies can push them around however they’d like. There isn’t a limited pool of workers that requires them to offer comprehensive benefits, like with more technical positions.
First, and I am not assuming you meant it this way it just has to be repeated over and over again, “unskilled laborers” is mostly just a phrase the rationalizes treating people who do difficult jobs like shit. It’s like the phrase “flipping burgers”, it takes what is an extremely difficult job both mentally and physically and hand waves it away as a cakewalk. Working in food service is basically being an athlete that has to pretend to be happy and pleasant the entire time while performing an endurance sport while also constantly having working memory and task management skills tested to an extreme degree.
Second, there is most definitely a limited pool of workers if those workers are organized and the president doesn’t step in to shut down said organization in favor of a deal that basically was written by the massive rail corporations….
First, and I am not assuming you meant it this way it just has to be repeated over and over again, “unskilled laborers” is mostly just a phrase the rationalizes treating people who do difficult jobs like shit.
Absolutely, that’s why I put it in quotation. I couldn’t think of a better way to describe them at the time. You’re spot on too that food service isn’t trivial work. Both it and working retail are brutal, and I don’t wish that on anyone except those who truly deserve it. There’s nothing wrong with those jobs, but they put up with way more than they should have to.
Judging people for their job is one of those shitty conservative boomer things, and it makes absolutely no sense. When I order out for dinner, I’m not necessarily looking for a chef whose culinary skills exceed my own. I’m looking for someone to make me food so I don’t have to. I’m exchanging money for someone’s time and effort so I don’t have to spend time nor effort. Skill and talent don’t matter. If I don’t want to do something, that something is going to be nontrivial effort, and I owe gratitude and compensation to whoever does it for me. All labor is precious and valuable under this viewpoint.
Also – I’m all for unionization. If it isn’t enough collective power to affect change, then we can try something else. But we should try first.
First, and I am not assuming you meant it this way it just has to be repeated over and over again, “unskilled laborers” is mostly just a phrase the rationalizes treating people who do difficult jobs like shit. It’s like the phrase “flipping burgers”, it takes what is an extremely difficult job both mentally and physically and hand waves it away as a cakewalk. Working in food service is basically being an athlete that has to pretend to be happy and pleasant the entire time while performing an endurance sport while also constantly having working memory and task management skills tested to an extreme degree.
Second, there is most definitely a limited pool of workers if those workers are organized and the president doesn’t step in to shut down said organization in favor of a deal that basically was written by the massive rail corporations….
Absolutely, that’s why I put it in quotation. I couldn’t think of a better way to describe them at the time. You’re spot on too that food service isn’t trivial work. Both it and working retail are brutal, and I don’t wish that on anyone except those who truly deserve it. There’s nothing wrong with those jobs, but they put up with way more than they should have to.
Judging people for their job is one of those shitty conservative boomer things, and it makes absolutely no sense. When I order out for dinner, I’m not necessarily looking for a chef whose culinary skills exceed my own. I’m looking for someone to make me food so I don’t have to. I’m exchanging money for someone’s time and effort so I don’t have to spend time nor effort. Skill and talent don’t matter. If I don’t want to do something, that something is going to be nontrivial effort, and I owe gratitude and compensation to whoever does it for me. All labor is precious and valuable under this viewpoint.
Also – I’m all for unionization. If it isn’t enough collective power to affect change, then we can try something else. But we should try first.