It's unfortunate that labor organizing has been anemic for so long I am guessing a lot of adults are not aware of what crossing a picket line even is. I can't blame people who need to work but those of us who could just use some other app should do so.

Certainly the instacart workers helped me the last two weeks shut in, it's the least we can do.

Instacart should be considered a last resort by anyone actually thinking about this. To start with, the whole way they distribute work is a complete shitshow (first come, first serve after jobs are posted at a preset time-- so in many markets, you have to login at exactly the right minute or all the worthwhile jobs get scooped up, yes literally within one minute).

Also the pay is crap, and you sometimes end up with orders of multiple cases of bottled water that are very difficult & time consuming to wrangle, and you'll get paid the same as if they bought the equivalent dollar amount worth of breakfast cereal. Customers frequently don't tip.

I found Uber & Lyft to be a far, far easier job for probably twice as much pay. Of course, right now I'm doing none of it. Fortunately my S.O. finally found a decent job and is able to work from home.

amazon is also looking for workers

No requirement to look for work for the unemployed, that's been waived, at least in my state.

'No requirement' as long as you can live on poverty-level benefits, you aren't afraid of losing skill competency, and you think future employers won't kind the gap on your resume?

I think the normal rules are out the window. Nobody is going to find an employment gap beginning in March of 2020 very remarkable.

The Instacart workers should encourage any scabs to instead join the strike so they can work together to demand better wages and conditions.

How do they find these new workers? Wait for them out at the grocery stores?

This whole process will be more difficult with 6-foot distancing and surgical masks.

Yup

Picketing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picketing

The workers that would be picketing don’t work for the supermarkets. The people that own the supermarkets will tell the picketers to get lost.

To join the strike they’d have to be working first no? So perhaps the best thing is for them to start scanning.

Good luck with that