Submitted by ThoolooExpress t3_10utmla in nyc
The air traffic controllers went on strike even though it was illegal to go out on strike. Ronald Reagan fired all of them for cause and brought in the national guard to control air traffic while new ones were being trained.
Elect politicians that will take open defiance of the law by public servants seriously and the problem will get solved. Don’t and it won’t.
Strikes are never illegal.
Strikes are workers putting down their tools.
Telling someone it's illegal to put down their tools? Sounds like slavery.
Fuck Reagan.
Are you familiar with the Taylor Law
Setting aside what's "right", public-sector strikes are illegal in New York. The flipside is union contracts continue in perpetuity when a new one isn't negotiated (the "Triborough Amendment"), unlike in the private sector. It creates a strong status quo bias.
>The Public Employees Fair Employment Act, more commonly known as the Taylor Law, is Article 14 of the New York State Civil Service Law, which defines the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York. The Public Employees Fair Employment Act (the Taylor Law) is a New York State statute, named after labor researcher George W. Taylor. It authorizes a governor-appointed State Public Employment Relations Board to resolve contract disputes for public employees while curtailing their right to strike. The law provides for mediation and binding arbitration to give voice to unions, but work stoppages are made punishable with fines and jail time.
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Slavery was permitted by The State.
It was always wrong, always immoral.
If you cant stop working, you are a slave. Currently, barring a criminal conviction in a court, slavery is not allowed in the US.
Yes, slavery was and is immoral. You said illegal though, not immoral. Folks are of course free to quit their jobs, they don't have to keep working for the government. A strike is a little more specific than that.
Also if you don't like that it's illegal, advocate for making it legal by repealing the Taylor Law
Is Moral Law, law?
Is a white horse, a horse?
If the Moral Law, is Law, then strikes are never illegal
If Moral Law is not Law, then white horses arent horses.
You are always free to quit. That’s what an illegal strike is—a bunch of civil servants quitting.
In your mind, how's this different than a "legal" strike?
Isnt that also, from your view "a bunch of civil servants quitting"?
One is legal and the other is illegal. That’s the difference.
If you are some kind of law doesn’t matter anarchist, what are you doing in a government job in the first place?
Immoral laws deserve no respect.
Not all laws are the same.
I also support runaway slaves. The moral law > the legal law
So you’re saying you’ll happily suck off the public teat but the second it’s convenient for you, all of a sudden you’re Henry David Thoreau.
I got it, your values are whatever is best for you in the moment. Lots of people like that.
You're a bad troll
The fact that you think moral law is "whatever is best for me in the moment" shows how absolutely idiotic you are.
0/10, wont reply again
yeah when Reagan did that it essentially was the end of ‘workers rights’ and it’s been all downhill as the ‘bosses’ know they have all the power while the ‘workers’ have nothing
So how come the bosses (aka voters) have to pay for parking and the workers park wherever they want? How does that fit into your neat, little theory of the world?
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