[lbo-talk] Work-to-Rule for All Workers

Tom Walker timework at telus.net
Tue May 17 06:19:11 PDT 2005


Yoshie wrote,


>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.

There were strikes before there were unions. Some historians have argued that restriction of output tactics have been more prevalent in non-unionized workplaces than in unionized ones. John R. Commons claimed that unions came on the scene to mitigate strikes, not to instigate them.

The Sandwichman



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