Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
by eropple on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:17PM
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No? They're not drafted, you can't compel grocery store workers to work. It just turns out that we rely more than people thought on some of the least protected of our citizens, and this is a pretty good chance to have their voices be heard.
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
by txcwpalpha on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:35PM
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Being drafted isn't relevant to the question. The NLRA does indeed specify that strikes can be illegal in certain situations, such as if doing so would cause a national emergency. I don't know if this particular strike falls under that or other criteria.
Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
by amelius on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:22PM
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> you can't compel grocery store workers to work
No but organizing to not work as a group is something else.
Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'
by fart_ratty on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:12PM
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Something like Eisenhower did with the steel workers could happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1959#Invocatio...