Not all of the rules can be changed by employers' whim alone, as some of them are federal and state laws. There are myriad government regulations concerning occupational health and safety <http://www.osha.gov/index.html>, wages and hours <http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/>, environment <http://www.epa.gov/epahome/workplac.htm>, and other subjects, whose enforcement workers must take into their own collective hands. Sometimes, workers' very lives depend on their capacity to enforce laws at the shop-floor level: <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/workplace/>.
>The only protection for defiance is collective defiance and the
>willingness to strike when fellow workers are fired. And that takes
>organizing and outside support to be successful in almost all cases.
No one said otherwise.
Nathan wrote:
>Working in a non-union workplace in the United States means "at
>will" employment, which means your boss can fire you because he
>doesn't like your choice of shoes that morning or for no reason at
>all. There are no "subversive" forms of public resistance. You
>resist in any way, you can be fired.
You don't resist in any way, and you can be fired, too. That's what "at will" employment means. You don't resist at all, and you can be even killed at a dangerous workplace. -- Yoshie
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